Garry Tan: Domain-Specific AI Assistants Are the New Mainstream

YC CEO Garry Tan argues that the mainstream of new AI applications is domain-specific assistants, saying startups must either become the system of record or a domain-specific harness in the shift toward agentic AI.

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