Garry Tan Calls Jacob Coxon Drama a Smokescreen, Urges Focus on AI Agent Risks
HankYeomans · x · 2026-09-11
Y Combinator president Garry Tan said on TBPN that the Jacob Coxon controversy is a "smokescreen" — a coordinated effort to push politicians into knee-jerk regulatory responses. He argues the real questions are what's happening on Hugging Face and whether agent swarms could take over infrastructure at scale. Reposter @theonejvo agrees that bigger forces may be behind Coxon while almost nobody is preparing for AI-enabled adversaries.
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