Ward: Carta uses automated AI agents overnight to catch software bugs
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Henry Ward, CEO of Carta, describes how the company uses autonomous AI agents internally for proactive software QA.
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“So now we have agents all night going through testing all the different possible things that a customer might do the next morning when they wake up, and then we catch the errors before they do.”
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