AI is collapsing the cost of building software so fast that a quarter of YC startups now have 95% of their code written by machines—and the bottleneck has shifted from engineering to taste, judgment, and physical infrastructure. The latest dispatches cover everything from open-source memory architecture for AI agents to the power grid crisis that could choke the whole boom. YC's Summer 2026 application window just closed, but a Product Hunt partnership is keeping a side door open through this Friday.
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