Quality Assurance
topic on 6 shows · 9 statements across 9 episodes
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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…”
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.”
Hughes: Traditional contact centers manually audit only 1% of conversation volume
“Historically, that was very laborious. It would be, ah, human auditing transcripts with a rubric, ah, only getting to one percent of that conversation volume, and then doing follow-up classroom-based learning.”
Koratana: SRE, QA, and support engineering functions will merge over time
“I actually, I genuinely think that as we start centralizing this context, all of these different functions that we were talking about earlier, right? Starting from SRE on like the most, you know, reactive, you know, infrastructure heavy side all the way down t…”
Chopra: Putting QA under managers evaluated on shipping speed destroys product quality
“And similarly, if you put someone who's responsible for quality assurance under someone who's responsible for shipping regularly,
The quality assurance will go for a nose dive, right?”
Chamath: AI will require top engineering talent in QA roles
“Like the least talented engineers were allocated to QA. I think in the world of AI, it's, it'll end up being the most talented.”
Product quality cannot be outsourced to QA or a single hire
“You're sunk if you think that like, you can just like hire some incredibly talented person and then like, and they'll do it. That'll be fine. You know, the rest of us will do what we're doing and they'll do it. Or that it's just like one organization that's go…”
Hardware bugs cost $20 million to fix, requiring huge QA ratios
“Often in chip companies for each developer, you have three or four QA people, DV people, and that's because a bug can cost you 20 or thirty million dollars. It's not like, yeah, I'll fix that in, in four dot one dot one. You're gonna have to re-spin the chip i…”