This post captures something many teams are quietly grappling with right now. Letting go of familiar team structures and redefining ownership is uncomfortable — especially when quality is on the line. QA didn’t disappear here, but its role fundamentally changed: developers took direct ownership of testing, supported by AI agents, while QA evolved away from being embedded in every product team. It wasn’t easy. It was messy and required trust on all sides. But six months later, shipping daily — and trusting those releases — says a lot about where this kind of change can lead. #ZencoderStartupJourney #BehindTheScenes #CompanyCulture #StartupJourney #TeamCulture #StartupLife #AIStartup #AICulture
I did what every QA team fears - removed them from product teams. Developers now write tests themselves with AI agents. It was scary, it was painful, but six months later we ship daily and trust these releases. The transformation story 👇