At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic
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At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic
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Re: At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic
#2The fonts the layouts it all screams claude at me.
I still can’t put a finger on it. I’ve seen real people use these fonts and layouts yet theirs look original.
Whoever finds an explanation for this solves AGI (/s)
Re: At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic
#3I wonder what they do, are they joining as engineers or leadership? because Anthropic has Member of Technical Staff role only.
Would be curious what some of the VP+ people are building inside Anthropic if they joined as engineers
Re: At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic
#4I hope some people remain to build the services that we still use more every day than LLMs.
Edit : and money. I guess most founders follow the money here.
Re: At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic
#5The fonts the layouts it all screams claude at me. I still can’t put a finger on it. I’ve seen real people use these fonts and layouts yet theirs look original. Whoever finds an explanation for this solves AGI (/s)
The sepia-tinted color scheme and the way LLMs overuse rounded corner tiles to the absolute death is part of it. Really what it comes down to, is that these LLMs have a design vocabulary of like 15 traits. None of the websites they generate have every single trait, but they are composed of some subset of 10 such traits, so it's still overwhelmingly obvious the moment you open the page, even though each one is slightly different. Humans might use 1~5 of those traits, but they'll also be mixed in with a much wider set of traits with more individuality to them.
Re: At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic
#6The site infers that 105 people are working at the two companies. What’s the denominator though?
After 20 or so years of YC, with multiple catches per year, and the insanely high failure rate of start ups, there must be a lot of former or floundering founders.
Re: At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic
#7The fonts the layouts it all screams claude at me. I still can’t put a finger on it. I’ve seen real people use these fonts and layouts yet theirs look original. Whoever finds an explanation for this solves AGI (/s)
The sepia-tinted color scheme and the way LLMs overuse rounded corner tiles to the absolute death is part of it. Really what it comes down to, is that these LLMs have a design vocabulary of like 15 traits. None of the websites they generate have every single trait, but they are composed of some subset of 10 such traits, so it's still overwhelmingly obvious the moment you open the page, even though each one is slightl…
I tried to list all the traits I could think of:
- Orange/beige-ish colors - Rounded corners - Cards with a thin border - A thicker colored border on the left of cards - Serif font for headings - Monospace fonts for small text - Headings that often have an unnecessary subheading / pre-heading - Little badges, often with a "status indicator" dot on the left - Obviously LLM-generated text / language
I'm sure I'm missing many but the above are dead giveaways!
Re: At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic
#8YC has tens of thousands of founders, more are probably at Google and Facebook than Anthropic and OpenAI. I’m not sure a sample of 105 founders shows… anything?
Re: At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic
#9I hope some people remain to build the services that we still use more every day than LLMs. Edit : and money. I guess most founders follow the money here.
Based on typical announcements, they only get acquired to serve their customers even better. The selfless unsung heroes of our time...
Re: At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic
#10Effectively, industry roles are a tiered system which determines access to the cashflow. Going the YC founder route is a much faster and more efficient way to secure a high tier than climbing the SWE ladder. The whole thing resembles a kind of mini class system, with high tiers granting access to generational wealth, and low tiers being better off than the average non-industry Joe. Once you're in the high tier, there's no way to fall anymore, you just move wherever the cash is being pumped in, collecting it.