YC's Garry Tan: AI-Flooded Code Calls for Rebuilding Software Engineering

Y Combinator president Garry Tan endorsed a viral argument that AI is turning code delivery into a continuous flood, requiring software engineering to be rebuilt around cybernetics-style abstractions as codebases evolve like living organisms.

2026-10-31 ~ 2026-10-31 · 2 related posts

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