Your AI Code Review Is Lying to You (Here’s the Fix) with Evan Marshall

About This Episode:

Your AI code review tools read the diff. They stare at your code. But they never actually run it. So the bugs that only show up at runtime, the broken user flows, the bad query plan, the duplicate submission, sail right past review and land in front of your customers.

In this episode, Joe Colantonio sits down with Evan Marshall, founder of Ito and a fifteen year engineer who spent five years in applied cryptography securing hundreds of millions of dollars for millions of people. Evan is taking that ship fast without breaking things discipline and pointing it straight at testing.

Ito is an agentic QA platform that builds and runs your actual app on every pull request, navigates it like a real user, exercises the frontend and backend as one system, and brings back real runtime evidence: video replays, logs, the exact lines responsible, and steps to reproduce, posted right in your PR.

You will learn:

Why static code review misses the bugs that cause real production incidents
How Ito spins up ephemeral environments and tests across UI, API, and database
Why QA is not disappearing, it is leveling up into a manager and quality strategist role
How to keep your test layer separate from your code generation so your signal stays honest
The skills testers and engineers need as AI writes more of the code

If you are shipping AI generated code at high velocity and your QA cannot keep up, this one is for you.

Try Ito on your own code. Your first ten pull requests are reviewed free, no credit card required. Check it out at https://testgld.link/itoai now.

And as Joe always says, seeing is believing

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This episode is brought to you by Ito. Look, if your team is shipping AI generated code, you already know the problem. Your senior engineers are burning three plus hours every single week manually clicking around, verifying that the code actually does what it is supposed to do. That is the worst part of the job, and it does not scale.

Ito fixes that. It is the only agentic QA platform that actually builds and runs your app on every pull request. Not static analysis, not reading the diff and guessing. It runs your real code, navigates your app like a real user, tests the frontend and the backend as one system, and catches the behavioral regressions that slip past everything else. And when it finds something, you get the receipts right in your PR. Video replay, the exact lines responsible, steps to reproduce, and a severity rating so you know what to fix first.

Teams using Ito are shipping twice the features per sprint with seventy percent fewer production regressions. No scripts to write. No brittle test suite to maintain. You just connect your repo and it goes.

Your first ten pull requests are reviewed free, no credit card required. Go check it out now at https://testgld.link/itoai

About Evan Marshall

Evan Marshall is co-founder and CTO at Ito, an agentic QA solution that actually runs and tests your application for every PR. Ito is the only solution that provides run-time evidence: logs, screenshots, API traces, execution scripts, and video for front-end changes. Evan has been building and leading engineering teams since graduating from MIT 12 years ago. He previously founded and sold two companies, including building production systems securing hundreds of millions of dollars in zero-knowledge cryptographic environments, creating the first WebGPU-accelerated ZK proving library (recognized by Z-Prize), and shipping the largest wallet on a major privacy chain to 1.5M users.

Connect with Evan Marshall

• • Company: ITO.ai
  • LinkedIn: www.evan–marshall
  • Twitter: www.QAwithIto

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