Weitzman: A good engineer today is essentially an exceptional QA tester
Cliff Weitzman · How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It · Sep 5, 2026 · at 38:53
Speechify CEO Cliff Weitzman explains how the rise of autonomous AI coding tools is transforming the day-to-day role of software engineers.
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“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 possible, which is hard to do, and then you need to make essentially, like, you know, roughly 10 really good product and engineering architecture decisions a day.”
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