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AI writes most of the code for most new YC companies, as of this year.
by rprend 10mo ago
AI writes most of the code for most new YC companies, as of this year.
- brazukadev 10mo agoThat explains the low quality of all launch HN this year
- block_dagger 10mo agoStats/figures to backup the low quality claim?
- esseph 10mo agoIf you have them, post them.
- 59nadir 10mo agoYC companies have pretty much always been overhyped trivial bullshit. I'm not surprised it's even worse nowadays, but it's never been more than a dog and pony show for bullshit.
- nickorlow 10mo agoI think this is is less significant b/c 1. Most of these companies are AI companies & would want to say that to promote whatever tool they're building 2. Selection b/c YC is looking to fund companies embracing AI 3. Building a greenfield project with AI to the quality of what you need to be a YC-backed company isn't particularly "world-class"
- rprend 10mo agoThey’re not lying when they say they have AI write their code, so it’s not just promotion. They will thrive or die from this thesis. If present YC portfolio companies underperform the market in 5-10 years, that’s a strong signal for AI skeptics. If they overperform, that’s a strong signal that AI skeptics were wrong. 3. You are absolutely right. New startups have greenfield projects that are in-distribution for AI. This gives them faster iteration speed. This means new companies have a structural advantage over older companies, and I expect them to grow faster than tech startups that don’t do this. Plenty of legacy codebases will stick around, for the same reasons they always do: once you’ve solved a problem, the worst thing you can do is rewrite your solution to a new architecture with a better devex. My prediction: if you want to keep the code writing and office culture of the 2010s, get a job internally at cloud computing companies (AWS, GCP, etc). High reliability systems have less to gain from iteration speed. That’s why airlines and banks maintain their mainframes.
- dmurvihill 10mo agoHow do you know they’re not lying?
- tapoxi 10mo agoSo they don't own the copyright to most of their code? What's the value then?
- esafak 10mo agoThey do. Where did you get this? All the providers have clauses like this: "4.1. Generally. Customer and Customer’s End Users may provide Input and receive Output. As between Customer and OpenAI, to the extent permitted by applicable law, Customer: (a) retains all ownership rights in Input; and (b) owns all Output. OpenAI hereby assigns to Customer all OpenAI’s right, title, and interest, if any, in and to Output." https://openai.com/policies/services-agreement/ https://openai.com/policies/services-agreement/
- shakna 10mo agoThe outputs of AI are most likely in the public domain. As automated process output are public domain, and the companies claim fair use when scraping, making the input unencumbered, too. It wouldn't be OpenAI holding copyright - it would be no one holding copyright.
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- bcrosby95 10mo agoCourts have already leaned this way too, but who knows what'll happen when companies with large legal funds enter the arena.
- macrolime 10mo agoSo you're saying machine code is public domain if it's compiled from C? If not, why would AI generated code be any different?
- tapoxi 10mo agoMonkey Selfie case, setting the stage for an automated process is not enough to declare copyright over a work.