{"podcast":{"title":"START","slug":"start-7171926","podcast_index_feed_id":7171926,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/startup-growth-podcast","website_url":"https://www.tryfondo.com/","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/_piHi4M4ohHZpDkziNHWWksxxbatgWrUdPwb5S4zcyo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NzVj/MDEzNjkxNjU1N2Uy/NDFhMDQ3M2ZhNWI3/NWY0MS5wbmc.jpg","author":"Fondo","episode_count":97,"summary":"Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. Get your books closed, taxes filed, and cash back from the IRS.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T06:21:07.655766+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/start-7171926"},"episode":{"title":"🎧 START pod: Aakash Mahalingam, CEO & Co-Founder, Canary: “AI writes your code. Canary tests it”","slug":"start-pod-aakash-mahalingam-ceo-co-founder-canary-ai-writes-your-code-canary-tests-it","published_at":"2026-05-14T18:27:14+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/start-7171926/start-pod-aakash-mahalingam-ceo-co-founder-canary-ai-writes-your-code-canary-tests-it","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/start-7171926","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/6d79aab2","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/6d79aab2/d17ffa69.mp3","summary":"AI coding tools are making developers faster than ever QA still hasn't caught up Aakash saw it firsthand at Windsurf during the AI coding explosion Then realized: QA is probably a bigger bottleneck than coding itself So he built Canary An 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 15 minutes instead of days Now the workflows are getting even crazier One customer already runs a fully autonomous loop: Linear ticket → Cursor background agent → PR → Canary QA → Merge The engineer just reviews the outputs before approving the change Code generation is becoming autonomous QA 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 itself 4:08 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.","meta_description":"AI coding tools are making developers faster than ever QA still hasn't caught up Aakash saw it firsthand at Windsurf during the AI coding explosion Then r…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":554,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/start-7171926/episodes/start-pod-aakash-mahalingam-ceo-co-founder-canary-ai-writes-your-code-canary-tests-it/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/start-7171926/start-pod-aakash-mahalingam-ceo-co-founder-canary-ai-writes-your-code-canary-tests-it.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}