A quarter of the W25 startup batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI, YC managing partner Jared Friedman said during a conversation posted on YouTube.
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In a video titled “Vibe Coding is the Future”, Friedman, along with YC CEO Garry Tan, managing partner Harj Taggar, and general partner Diana Hu, discussed the trend of using natural language and instincts to create code.
an important caveat to this, I think, is that YC is heavily invested in startups that will sell AI, not just startups that are using it to build their product. so they have an incentive to hype it up as much as they can.
if any of these startups succeed, my condolences to the engineers who get hired afterwards and are stuck bugfixing and trying to understand the LLM-generated codebase the founders slapped together.
After decades of seeing job offers like “Idea guy, looks for technological partner to write code for startup”… I can’t but smirk at the vision of an “idea guy” having an LLM write some code, then convincing some investors to finance the sham.
This will be the new COBOL, a natural language any businessman can write by themselves 🤭