quality assurance

also referred to as: qa

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 24, 2023 by Guy Podjarny · across every show →

Everything said about quality assurance, oldest first

May 24, 2023 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Podjarny: Quality assurance software was not a viable standalone market
“Nobody's paying anything in the world of QA. Like, there is, like, from a business perspective, it was just not at all compelling.”
Guy Podjarny May 24, 2023 ▶ 19:22 Guy Podjarney: $7.4B Startup Founder; How to Analyse Market Size; Good vs Great Messaging | E1018 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 4, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: Most AI coding tokens are spent on QA rather than production
“The vast majority of tokens that are used in coding are in QA anyway. It's not in production.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 36:26 Anthropic Files to Go Public | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | The 996 Work Ethic · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 5, 2026 positive
Insight
Weitzman: A good engineer today is essentially an exceptional QA tester
“Really a good engineer today is just an exceptional QA, right? The AI will make them feature. You will test the feature, see if it's good, you'll figure out where the edge cases are, you'll prompt it to fix it, and then you try to make it as efficient as possi…”
Cliff Weitzman Sep 5, 2026 ▶ 38:53 How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
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