YC Startups: 95% AI-Generated Code – Trend or Fad?
2025-03-06

A quarter of the startups in Y Combinator's latest batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI. While AI-assisted coding significantly boosts efficiency, YC partners caution that developers still need code review and debugging skills. AI-generated code isn't perfect and can contain security flaws and errors. This sparks debate about whether AI coding is a future trend or a fleeting fad, and fuels the funding boom for related AI coding tools.
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