VC: agent-coded startups show order-of-magnitude edge over hand-coded teams
josh_bickett · x · 2026-10-26
VC Josh Elman recounts founders who spent 3 years hand-writing their codebase now feeling behind startups founded this year with all code written by agents — "never seen such an order of magnitude difference." joshbickett's take: letting go of code you painstakingly wrote by hand is hard, but you must — the AI is a superhuman coder that can run with your starting point; keep ownership only where agents still need you.
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