{"id":1237473,"date":"2025-03-06T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237473"},"modified":"2025-03-06T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T15:08:00","slug":"a-quarter-of-startups-in-ycs-current-cohort-have-codebases-that-are-almost-entirely-ai-generated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237473","title":{"rendered":"A Quarter of Startups in YC&#8217;s Current Cohort Have Codebases That Are Almost Entirely AI-Generated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A quarter of startups in Y Combinator&#8217;s Winter 2025 batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI, YC managing partner Jared Friedman said. &#8220;Every one of these people is highly technical, completely capable of building their own products from scratch. A year ago, they would have built their product from scratch &#8212; but now 95% of it is built by an AI,&#8221; Friedman said. <\/p>\n<p>YC CEO Garry Tan warned that AI-generated code may face challenges at scale and developers need classical coding skills to sustain products. He predicted: &#8220;This isn&#8217;t a fad. This is the dominant way to code.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=A+Quarter+of+Startups+in+YC's+Current+Cohort+Have+Codebases+That+Are+Almost+Entirely+AI-Generated%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F03%2F06%2F159208%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/twitter_icon_large-87.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F03%2F06%2F159208%2Fa-quarter-of-startups-in-ycs-current-cohort-have-codebases-that-are-almost-entirely-ai-generated%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/facebook_icon_large-89.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/story\/25\/03\/06\/159208\/a-quarter-of-startups-in-ycs-current-cohort-have-codebases-that-are-almost-entirely-ai-generated?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=23629037&amp;smallembed=1\" style=\"height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quarter of startups in Y Combinator&#8217;s Winter 2025 batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI, YC managing partner Jared Friedman said. &#8220;Every one of these people is highly technical, completely capable of building their own products from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237473\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slashdot","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}