These days? Short-list them. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/domu-technology-inc/jo...
I laughed, but it kind of makes sense. If you are looking for a hyperfast scale-up and exit, you do not care one bit about the quality of the code.
It's a fun experiment how large you can grow an AI system before it falls apart because nobody knows how it works and it's too complex for the AI to grasp, but I imagine this breaking point will increase as AI gets better.
As a potential customer, this is like buying from a private equity owned business. You know you are buying a heap of shit, but hopefully it's cheap (for a while)
12-15 hour days and weekends? Holy shit! 50% of your current code must be vibe coding... P sure this wasn't a thing until recently.
Well paid collections agent? Collections engineer, if you will.
Your onboarding will be making collection calls.Good god, this is the kind of shit that gets funded by Y Combinator? I had to double check that that page wasn't some kind of joke.
This is most “AI” companies. It’s kind of sad tbh because I’m building an actual company and when I talk to founders in SF I feel like they’re running scams or just lying. It wasn’t like this 5 or more years ago.
Oh well. Maybe I just don’t understand the game.
That confirms a suspicion I've had for a while. These days I tend to assume that 95% of anything associated with cryptocurrency or AI is nothing but a hype-driven tool for extracting money from investors who should know better but somehow never do, no matter how many fads they live through.
But because of the quality of this message board I've always assumed that Y Combinator made wiser investments and didn't just throw money at whoever said the magic buzzwords of the day. Guess not.