AI Writes 95% of the Code for 25% of YC Startups

[rcamargo]

Very hard to believe. I have been using AI to write small pieces of code, and that's okay. It writes the code, I make a few tweaks, and move on. But 95% of a codebase being entirely written by AI? It doesn't seem maintainable.

Another issue with large-scope coding is ambiguity. Code is not ambiguous, plain English is. So, a lot of time is wasted trying to get AI to understand what you really mean.

[_mitterpach]

Link to the original source for the percentage, obviously embellished: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IACHfKmZMr8

Writes maybe, but how much time is spent on debugging the terrible code written for the last five percent? Connecting bits and bobs together is pretty critical towards a fully realised product, and as the interviewee in the video points out, "it's not very good at debugging", because of course it is not. Has anyone actually made an AI workflow that would allow it to debug and actually solve real business problems? The best I've seen was solving off-by-one bugs, pretty obvious ones at that.

[xiaguo]

That's also my take when I look at AI coding, but at one point I saw a startup founder is basically writing all the code with AI (although she stumbled on finding how to fix some bugs from time to time), that got me into thinking maybe using AI to code the entire codebase is not that far away from us.

[uberman]

There is no real source for this claim as it goes back to an interview where a YC rep just states it. There also no context for this figure.

Is this 95% essentially tab line completion or is this 95% the response to a request to write my code for me?

[xiaguo]

I think there is some exgeration for sure, it's probably 95% line completion that writing code alone and present a finished feature for developer. I was looking at https://x.com/levelsio/status/1893385114496766155 and a bit shocked on how quickly someone can make a game with it and gnerate revenue in such a short time.