Everything You Learned About the Testing Pyramid Was Based on a Constraint That No Longer Exists

The Testing Pyramid was never a technical ideal. It was a financial compromise based on the cost of human capital. In an agent-driven world, that constraint disappears and the pyramid becomes a square. Equal investment across every test type. Maximum risk buydown. No excuses.

Rich called me today. He is a Director of Platform Engineering at a publicly traded company and I am going to leave it at that because the insight matters more than the org chart.