tomatohs

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Founder of https://testdriver.ai and https://dashcam.io

email ian [at] testdriver.ai

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Comment · 2 months ago

Decline? AI coding agents drove commits up 14× in a year. Pull requests opened by AI coding agents surged from roughly 4 million in September 2025 to more than 17 million in March 2026 — a 325% increase in six months. [1]

[1] https://www.techtimes.com/articles/318481/20260616/githubs-a...

Comment · 1 year ago

TestDriver.ai | https://testdriver.ai | QA, Engineers, Customer Support | Austin / Remote | Full-time / Part Time 95% of companies are still wasting time manually testing due to shortcomings in Playwright, Cypress, and other frameworks. Developers rank testing as the #1 blocker to release. We've built an AI Agent that performs manual testing on it's own VM with complete desktop access. It works like a specialized "Claude Computer Use."

We're scaling our early sales and seeking QA engineers, customer support, and sales engineers.

Please DM ian [at] testdriver [dot] ai

Comment · 1 year ago

Computer-use agent for testing: https://testdriver.ai

Comment · 1 year ago

I started a company to do exactly this a few years ago, and got to work with amazing companies testing their developer experience.

The problem is not the docs, it's Conway's law. One team designs the API, the other team designs the portal, and another team designs the SDK. The user has a holistic experience that cuts through each team.

That, and the docs are usually written first by the most technical person around, who has a hard time sharing the world view of a noob.

Comment · 1 year ago

It's not 2010 anymore. Most startups can't even attract "the best engineers" much less hire them.

This is the late game, why would an engineer work for a fraction of a percent of equity and a below market salary when they can take a job at FANG?

You've got to be offering something really, really valuable like remote work, an interesting problem, and/or a new experience. Otherwise the math doesn't math.

Comment · 1 year ago

We've built an AI Agent that performs manual testing on it's own VM with complete desktop access. It works like a specialized "Claude Computer Use."

We're scaling our early sales and seeking QA engineers, customer support, and sales engineers.

Please DM ian [at] testdriver [dot] ai

Comment · 1 year ago

Computer-Use Agent for QA Testing https://testdriver.ai

Comment · 1 year ago

This is exactly our workflow, though we defined our own YAML spec [1] for reasons mentioned in previous comments.

We have multiple fallbacks to prevent flakes; The "cheap" command, a description of the intended step, and the original prompt.

If any step fails, we fall back to the next source.

1. https://docs.testdriver.ai/reference/test-steps

Comment · 1 year ago

Would love to use this for TestDriver, but needs to support Windows :*(