AI coding tools

7 statements across 4 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Mar 5, 2025 by Garry Tan · across every show →

Everything said about AI coding tools, oldest first

Mar 5, 2025 negative
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Tan: YC founder survey reveals AI coding tools struggle with debugging
“Oh, and interestingly, I guess one thing the survey did indicate is that this stuff is terrible at debugging.”
Garry Tan Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 4:35 Vibe Coding Is The Future · Y Combinator
May 9, 2025 positive
Opinion
Tom Blomfield says AI makes him 10x more productive than before
“These new tools made me 10 times more powerful, more productive than I was when I was kind of current in, in, you know, software engineering 10 years ago.”
Tom Blomfield May 9, 2025 ▶ 4:22 How AI Coding Agents Will Change Your Job · Y Combinator
May 9, 2025 positive
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Tom Blomfield says AI coding in YC startups surged to 25%
“Last batch, that number was 25% of companies. So they use these tools for most of their code. Two batches ago, it was approximately zero percent.”
Tom Blomfield May 9, 2025 ▶ 5:01 How AI Coding Agents Will Change Your Job · Y Combinator
May 9, 2025 bullish
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Dave Lieb predicts AI will eventually write any type of code
“I think it will get good enough to write any code.”
David Lieb May 9, 2025 ▶ 6:20 How AI Coding Agents Will Change Your Job · Y Combinator
May 9, 2025 positive
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Dave Lieb says up to half of YC startups primarily use AI
“I would say maybe like a third to a half of the companies would say that they pretty much primarily write code in this style.”
David Lieb May 9, 2025 ▶ 4:51 How AI Coding Agents Will Change Your Job · Y Combinator
Jun 11, 2025 bullish
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Truell: AI coding tools will become 10x more useful within a year
“And I think that the game in the next six months to a year is to make both of those, you know, an order of magnitude more useful.”
Michael Truell Jun 11, 2025 ▶ 4:16 Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator
Dec 3, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Skates: Self-improving software is arriving much sooner than 10 years out
“We've always had this vision at amplitude of a self-improving product where you have a product that dynamically responds to your user feedback. So it knows what features you like. It knows when you're getting frustrated and stuck. It knows how to change things…”
Spencer Skates Dec 3, 2025 ▶ 8:07 How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to “All In” on AI · Y Combinator
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