🎧 START pod: Aakash Mahalingam, CEO & Co-Founder, Canary: “AI writes your code. Canary tests it”

AI coding tools are making developers faster than everQA still hasn't caught upAakash saw it firsthand at Windsurf during the AI coding explosionThen realized:QA is probably a bigger bottleneck than coding itselfSo he built CanaryAn 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 PR15 minutes instead of daysNow the workflows are getting even crazierOne customer already runs a fully autonomous loop:Linear ticket → Cursor background agent → PR → Canary QA → MergeThe engineer just reviews the outputs before approving the changeCode generation is becoming autonomousQA has to become autonomous too🎙️ Aakash Mahalingam, Co-founder & CEO, Canary on Fondo START pod ‍00:15 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.