Software teams have become very good at shipping quickly. With automation, CI/CD, shift-left practices, and now AI-assisted development, the amount of change moving through delivery pipelines keeps growing. But in many teams, confidence is not growing at the same pace.

More change means more assumptions, more test maintenance, more rushed checks, and less time to really understand risk. What looks like a testing problem is often a learning problem: teams are producing faster than they are able to make sense of what they produce.

In this talk, Łukasz Pietrucha looks at the hidden tax of speed through the lens of everyday QA work. He focuses on the practical challenges testers and quality engineers face today, and on the skills and habits that matter more in this environment: risk thinking, sharper collaboration, better feedback loops, and knowing where deep testing still creates the most value.