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How does YC spit out so many GPT based startups recently, so soon after the LLM mainstream hype started (including ones that were founded years prior)?

Is Sam Altman still involved in YC?




I don't know if you need to invoke ulterior motives to explain startups jumping on the biggest change to the tech landscape since the iPhone.


It's funny to see how half of HN frontpage in the past weeks has been Show HN thin wrappers around an API call to ChatGPT disguised as full startups.

All while HN posters were warning us about a flood of low quality AI generated content, well, here it is in one of its forms.


I see it from the other side. LLMs are so commoditized that it’s super easy to add GPT to anything you can think of.


Well looks like they are from last year so they must’ve modified their business


We've been working on semantic code search since the start of 2021. You can see details our first iteration here https://www.producthunt.com/products/bloop-2#bloop-3

The main shift was moving from the IDE to our own standalone app. We found the IDE sidebar to be too constrained visually for many code search related workflows.


They probably pivoted halfway


Dude ofcourse what do you even mean lmao. Sama in the bones of YC




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