I spent 3 days debugging a flaky test in 2021. The element was there, then it wasn’t. I added sleep(5000). I prayed. It still failed.
Then we migrated to Playwright. Auto-wait actually worked. Network interception meant I didn't have to mock a database just to test a frontend toggle. My test suite went from taking 45 minutes to 6 minutes.
Stop fighting your framework. If you are still adding hard sleeps to your tests in 2026, it’s time to move on.
What was your "I can't believe we used to do it the old way" moment in automation? 👇
I spent 3 days debugging a flaky test in 2021.
The element was there, then it wasn’t.
I added sleep(5000). I prayed. It still failed.
Then we migrated to Playwright. Auto-wait actually worked.
Network interception meant I didn't have to mock a database just to test a frontend toggle.
My test suite went from taking 45 minutes to 6 minutes. Stop fighting your framework.
If you are still adding hard sleeps to your tests in 2026, it’s time to move on.
What was your "I can't believe we used to do it the old way" moment in automation? 👇
Yesterday, our Lead Architect, a guy who single-handedly designed our microservices infrastructure, shared his screen on a Zoom call.
In his browser tabs:
"How to undo last git commit"
"Why is my bash script permission denied"
"Center a div CSS"
Tech Twitter makes you feel like everyone is a genius writing perfect code in a dark room. In reality, we are all just professional Googlers stringing together documentation, AI prompts, and Stack Overflow threads.
Normalize not knowing everything. What’s the most basic thing you had to look up this week?