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🎧 START pod: Jack Brown, Founder, Lark: “The E2E testing layer for AI-driven development.”
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- May 6, 2026
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Summary
The way to make software faster was always: make the code happen faster AI solved that Cursor, Claude Code, Replit... Building is nearly instant now So what's slow? Knowing if it actually works. When AI writes your feature, someone still has to answer: did it break everything else? That's the new bottleneck. Not creation. Validation Jack Brown is building Lark to solve exactly this. An AI QA engineer that writes tests, keeps them updated, and continuously validates There's the building, and then there's the thing that lives on after the building Lark is focused on that second half 🎙️ Jack Brown, Cofounder, Lark on Fondo START pod 00:15 Building an AI QA engineer 01:56 AI dramatically increased development velocity 02:15 The bottleneck becomes verification 02:25 Cursor writes the code. Lark writes the tests. 03:24 Acceptance criteria → automated validation 04:15 Non-technical founders building software with AI 05:35 Lark agents autonomously defining tests 06:31 Everything is just validation 07:56 Fully agentic software creation 08:53 Why testing becomes more critical in AI-generated codebases Visit getlark.ai to learn more