Y Combinator CEO: 'Vibe Coding' Reshapes the Startup Landscape
2025-03-18
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan believes "vibe coding," using AI for programming, is enabling startups to remain lean and efficient. He suggests that smaller teams can now accomplish large-scale projects with AI assistance, encouraging struggling young engineers to "vibe code" and build their own startups. Tan notes that roughly 81% of Y Combinator's current batch are AI companies, with 25% having 95% of their code generated by LLMs. While AI debugging remains a challenge, "vibe coding" dramatically increases software development speed, allowing small teams to achieve significant success in niche markets, potentially generating hundreds of millions in annual revenue.
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