The Day the Bot Broke the Backend | New York Meetup

The Test Tribe Meetup – The Day the Bot Broke the Backend: Performance Testing in the Age of AI Traditional, static performance testing is fundamentally broken in the age of Generative AI. When applications shift to non-deterministic, AI-driven workflows, caching layers fail, latencies spike unpredictably, and traditional test scripts end up flying blind. This session tells the story of what happens when performance engineering has to evolve overnight — and what it takes to keep up. Event Details Date: 28th July 2026 Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT Venue: 307 West 38th Street, Studio 1401 Session: The Day the Bot Broke the Backend: Performance Testing in the Age of AI Speaker: Gargi Majumder Why Show up? Understand why traditional performance testing breaks down in non-deterministic, AI-driven systems Learn how to use AI as a white-box collaborator rather than a black box you're testing blind Get a practical playbook for evolving from script maintenance to modern performance architecture Hear a real, story-driven account of a production meltdown and the lessons it forced into the open…