{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"START","title":"🎧 START pod: Aakash Mahalingam, CEO & Co-Founder, Canary: “AI writes your code. Canary tests it”","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/6d79aab2\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":554,"description":"AI coding tools are making developers faster than ever\nQA still hasn't caught up\nAakash saw it firsthand at Windsurf during the AI coding explosion\nThen realized:\nQA is probably a bigger bottleneck than coding itself\nSo he built Canary\nAn AI QA engineer that reads your source code, maps changes to real user flows, spins up remote browsers, and drops video recordings directly into the PR\n15 minutes instead of days\nNow the workflows are getting even crazier\nOne customer already runs a fully autonomous loop:\nLinear ticket → Cursor background agent → PR → Canary QA → Merge\nThe engineer just reviews the outputs before approving the change\nCode generation is becoming autonomous\nQA has to become autonomous too\n\n🎙️ Aakash Mahalingam, Co-founder & CEO, Canary on Fondo START pod ‍\n00:15 What Canary does 0:57 Spinning up remote browsers to test 1:42 User flow validation vs file reviews 2:29 How this changes developer workflows 3:12 Lessons from Windsurf and Cognition 3:43 QA is a bigger bottleneck than coding itself4:08 Pivoting inside YC from regression to feature testing 5:02 Applying to YC five times 6:11 Background agents opening PRs autonomously 6:37 \"They didn't write a single line of code to merge that\"‍Check out runcanary.ai to learn more. ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/q-E1hh7K6IS4AfZiNy2p4MYVGcUOO8lQP92h8QbOEOA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NzVj/MDEzNjkxNjU1N2Uy/NDFhMDQ3M2ZhNWI3/NWY0MS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}