Could an agent swarm replicate 95% of YC startups? Capability isn't commitment
abhiadesai · x · 2026-09-22
A debate on whether frontier labs could crush startups: goodhartproof argues the barrier is focus, not capability — "capability isn't commitment." abhiadesai adds that replicating 95% of current YC startups is largely a matter of pointing an agent swarm at the directory with enough compute.
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