code

6 statements across 6 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Dec 20, 2018 by Frank Lantz · across every show →

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Dec 20, 2018 positive
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Lantz: Even board game designers must learn coding fundamentals
“I think you want to be a game designer, even if you're making board games, I actually think if you want to be a game designer, you should know the fundamentals of how to code. You should be just, you know, comfortable literate with thinking algorithmically.”
Frank Lantz Dec 20, 2018 ▶ 32:39 Frank Lantz - Director of NYU's Game Center and Creator of Universal Paperclips · Y Combinator
Nov 26, 2024
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Founders should expect to throw away 90% of their early startup code
“Rule of thumb, I would assume that you'll throw away 90% of all the code you write. So your goal at that stage is just to identify the 10% of what you're building that's actually valuable as fast as possible.”
Nicolas Dessaigne Nov 26, 2024 ▶ 8:05 How To Start A Dev Tools Company | Startup School · Y Combinator
Mar 28, 2025 positive
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Schaad: Code gives designers direct control of production to build companies
“That is really changing now where designers can essentially through software, through code can actually be really close To building the object. Right. Versus kind of like, you know, back in the day, maybe it's furniture or like other objects. And so I think th…”
Raphael Schaad Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 2:49 What Founders Can Do To Improve Their Design Game · Y Combinator
Jul 10, 2025 neutral
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Ng: Code itself is becoming much less valuable as engineering costs drop
“One surprising thing is, we're used to thinking of code as this really valuable artifact because it's so hard to create, but because the cost of software engineering is going down, code is much less of a valuable artifact as it used to.”
Andrew Ng Jul 10, 2025 ▶ 13:15 Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI · Y Combinator
Feb 21, 2026 bullish
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Friedman: Majority of Software Code Is Probably Already Written by AI Agents
“It's already probably the case that the majority of code being written is written by agents.”
Jared Friedman Feb 21, 2026 ▶ 19:28 The AI Agent Economy Is Here · Y Combinator
May 8, 2026 neutral
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Tan: Agentic engineering fails when developers put Markdown logic into brittle code
“All of the difficulty in energetic engineering today is when people try to do things that should be in markdown in code and it fails because code is brittle.”
Garry Tan May 8, 2026 ▶ 22:49 Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers · Y Combinator
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