Founders writing code manually for 3 years now feel an order of magnitude behind agent-native startups
inductionheads · x · 2026-10-26
Investor Josh Elman talked to multiple founders who built products over the last 3 years with manual code; they feel behind and slower than companies started this year with all code written by agents — an order-of-magnitude difference he has never seen before. Rebroadcaster Tunguz expects the gap to only widen.
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