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A quarter of startups in YC's current cohort have codebases that are almost entirely AI-generated | TechCrunch

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A quarter of Y Combinator's W25 startups have 95% of their codebases generated by AI , YC managing partner Jared Friedman said.

Friedman said that this figure didn't include things like code written to import libraries but took into consideration the code typed by humans as compared to AI .

YC CEO Garry Tan and general partner Diana Hu discussed the trend of using natural language and instincts to create code.

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