AI is compressing engineering work by 100x, reshaping who gets to build: a quarter of YC startups now have 95% of their code written by AI, with some hitting $10M in revenue with fewer than 10 people. The constraint has shifted from writing software to knowing what to build—and the infrastructure to support it, from persistent AI memory to grid-scale power, is still catching up. YC is responding in real time, pivoting toward hard tech and energy, opening new application paths, and betting that the next great founder might be an English major.
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