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Key Takeaways Building software has never been easier, but verifying that what you build actually works is still a challenge. And it’s no longer just an engineering problem; it’s a founder problem, too.
At the speed teams are now shipping, the cost of missing quality shows up in ways that are hard to recover from: security breaches, customer trust, reputation, investor confidence, compliance risk, etc.
In most companies, quality looks covered on paper. But a process that worked when humans wrote every line doesn’t automatically hold when an agent writes 95% of it and a human skims the rest.
The assurance gap is real. Founders, product teams and engineering leads — everyone has a role in closing it.
We’re living in the best time to build software. AI writes code faster than any team can review it, development cycles have collapsed, and barriers to shipping have never been lower.
With the rise of vibe coding, almost anyone can be a coder now, and the market is already reflecting that. Twenty-five percent of Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 startups had codebases that were 95% AI-generated.
The first version of a product has never been easier to create. But software isn’t judged by how fast it shows up in a repo. It’s judged by whether it holds up once real users, real data and real attackers arrive.
However, every superpower comes with a blind spot — and ours is quality. Building got easy. Verifying that what we built actually works did not. In 2026, it quietly moved up the org chart. It’s no longer just an engineering problem. It’s a founder problem, too.
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