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YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood
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Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan claims to deploy 37,000 lines of AI code daily across five projects. He emphasizes the significance of "agentic engineering" in his recent social media posts.
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- Praise: Some developers are leveraging AI tools to boost productivity, allowing them to produce higher quality software at the same pace as before, which is a game changer.
- Praise: Despite concerns, there’s an argument that the current state of code quality was already declining before LLMs, so it's not all on AI.
- Concern: The sheer volume of code being produced raises alarms about quality; many fear that bloated and inefficient code is becoming the norm, not the exception.
- Concern: Critics argue that measuring success by lines of code is misguided, as it often results in unnecessary complexity instead of effective solutions.
- Concern: Access to AI tools doesn't equate to expertise; many users are churning out code without understanding its quality, which is a recipe for disaster.