YC's Garry Tan: Apple should rebuild buggy apps with hundreds of codegen agents
garrytan · x · 2026-11-09
YC president Garry Tan argues that once you realize how easily software can be changed with frontier models, legacy bugs become unbearable — and "personal just-in-time software" is inevitable. He calls on Apple to redo its software team with engineers fully versed in "software factories," so legendarily buggy apps like Apple TV and Calendar get rebuilt by a few people plus hundreds of codegen agents.
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