I became disabled a few years ago, and the most likely scenario for me is that I will stay on disability for the foreseeable future. But from time to time, I think about my halcyon days doing QA, which was a job I really liked.

This leads me to wonder -- is manual QA even a valid career path anymore? Or are these jobs being eaten by automation, AI, and the usual protestations that "devs do their own QA" and "we don't need QA"...in other words, forcing your users to become unpaid beta testers for a finished product and hoping for the best?

Just curious.