I've always wondered why mobile test automation feels so fragile. I got my answer after reading Jay Saadana's article on Vision Language . The thing that clicked for me We've been testing visual products by reading invisible XML structure So when a developer moves a button or renames a component, the test Jay puts it really well in the article — we treated apps like collections Vision Language Models fix this by looking at the screen the way a human So when you write a test like "tap the login button", it finds it visible. A few numbers from the article that stuck with me: 9% higher code coverage compared to traditional methods 29 new bugs found in Google Play apps that existing tools completely missed Tests written in plain English — no automation expertise needed That last one is what got me. Plain English test instructions means I came into this article thinking flaky tests were just a tooling problem. conceptual problem — we were VLMs are the first approach that actually fixes the root cause instead Big thanks to Jay for writing this so clearly. If you're into AI, mobile give it a read. Curious — have any of you run into the flaky test problem before? @jaysaadana