SMRTR ProgrammingAug 6, 2026SD Times

Stop Calling It AI Testing—It’s Time for AI Validation Engineering

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AI systems don't guarantee identical outputs for identical inputs, making traditional testing inadequate. A new discipline—AI Validation Engineering—is needed, focusing on output grounding, drift detection, and action-level auditing instead of applying deterministic QA to probabilistic models.

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