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Bubble or not, AI is eating everything , not just YC. In particular, I've noticed the topic of AI is eating up corporate meetings, turning them into a kind of human slop.
“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.
It's the same thing as kids that say they want to be a star athlete, rock star, influencer, or pro gamer. It's just something they are interested in that they think won't take a lot of work to be paid well. Hype train moves a lot of mass
All else is a combination of luck, skill, and grit, because for every rock star, star athlete, and successful influencer, there are tens or hundreds of thousands who aren't famous because they didn't win that game.
> Going through YC’s startup directory reveals that of the 170 startups in the most recent summer batch 154 are AI startups. The author calculates this by searching for the term "AI" in the name and description of each startup's YC page. But presence of the term "AI" doesn't make a startup an "AI startup," so to speak. For example, I picked one startup at random, Topological, which is "developing physics-based founda…
Guess what, you aren't getting into YC as a CAD company and you aren't raising further rounds either.
AI ate HN also. It’s ridiculous how many articles are about AI now. Are we truly out of any new ideas? Can we not talk about something else? I kind of like AI but it’s a tool, I don’t talk about my screwdriver constantly.
I am sure then you will talk about screwdrivers...
Screwdriver wrappers probably lol /s
(This was a joke of sorts and replace screwdriver with AI/AI wrappers and these websites owned by AI wrappers)
YC remains a great source of creative inspiration for me. However, I tend to skip most AI-related content on HN, as the topic does more harm than good to me in my daily life. Some people around me delegate more and more decisions to the chat, and that frightens. Especially if you are somehow dependent on them or your work gets evaluated by some creepy AI-driven bossware. We should admit that AI, particularly LLMs, is…
It's certainly eating up a lot of the threads on HN.
Exactly my thoughts. Couldn't agree more really, there is so much to discuss on this short time that we have on earth but a lot of that energy is going into talking about AI and AI again it seems. I have nothing against the tech but c'mon I would argue that open source itself overall is more valuable than AI but that isn't an apples to orange comparison but still, I see far fewer discussions of open source as compare…
Because the big discussions of open source were decades ago now. If you add up all the discussions of open source in the past I'd assume they'd out number the AI discussions now. Also, there is very little novel to discuss about open source. Now novel and 'important' are different things, but novel is what tends to write articles and get eyeballs.
Is 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 pro…
LLM's have applicable tech in the world today, where it's usable where software prior hasn't been able to, I don't see it going away.
Where folks are trying to apply it to replace deterministic software..? Mileage may vary.
90% (154/170) of the latest HN summer batch are AI startups. I was expecting a lot, but not this much.
"AI startups." Only around 10% of them will succeed at best. If a massive crash happens then it would be 2% at best.