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How the AI bubble ate Y Combinator
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Re: How the AI bubble ate Y Combinator
#12The one thing that LLMs are good at is prototyping super fast. For accelerators/incubators etc this is a game changer since more ideas can be realized and tested for market fit.
Now if the market fit indeed exists then someone needs to rearchitect and rewrite the thing. But wasn’t it always the case? The POC always was a hacked together solution with no real viability to be used as the final product.
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#13At an individual scale, working on AI makes sense, no one wants to miss out.
Though I would love if the people who take care of the forest take more responsibility to shepherd the chaos.
In a federated society like ours, I doubt that's possible, for good or bad or extinction.
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#14It has eaten Hacker News too. Hello LLMs!
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#15“All the smart kids of the Bay Area want to work on AI,” Operative word here is "kids", and from what I can tell they're not even the smart ones, just the ones who are more geared toward being money and status-obsessed.
You could have said that with any previous investment cycle and the people applying and being accepted to Ycom. Its a thing for generating money not great code or w/e.
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#16Is it just me or anyone else fed up with the startup community. I cannot find anyone who actually cares about values and have backbone.
The stories I grew up with of Wozniak, Jobs, Larry and the hacker community does not resemble them anymore.
Everyone I know who raised money is a moron or narcissist.
YC has became like a resume builder.
And the genuine hackers I know of are wasting life away working on pointless projects.
Maybe it's just me not being able to not get out of the daily job schedule and taking the piss out.
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#1790% (154/170) of the latest HN summer batch are AI startups. I was expecting a lot, but not this much.
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#18what a terrible site
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#19If you drive through San Francisco on I-80, every single billboard between the Bay Bridge and the 101 is for some kind of AI service (except, amusingly, the one for Yudkowsky's new book about AI doom). All of them look terrible and completely useless. There was one that said "Still using PowerPoint? Use our AI slide maker instead" with a picture of a three-eyed cat, as though to brag that their service makes unappetizing and unreliable slop.
It's total insanity; comparisons to tulip mania no longer even apply now that people are tossing around numbers like $500 billion when talking about their capex buildouts.
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#20Every company is an AI company and you should probably be less interested in building an AI and more interested in how you can apply AI to solve business needs that are not directly AI-related.