🤖📈 Stat of the Day: One-quarter of Y Combinator’s current Winter 2025 class – which contains 166 total startups – have codebases that are ~95% generated by artificial intelligence, YC managing partner Jared Friedman recently revealed.

But…AI isn’t a silver bullet to creating a billion-dollar company. Among YC’s new startups that rely heavily on AI, the founders are all capable of building their product from scratch, according to Friedman – it’s simply quicker and easier for AI to do nearly all coding work, thanks to recent technological advancements.

• Friedman also notes that startup founders and/or their tech leaders still need classical coding training and should be skilled at reading code and finding bugs, regardless of how much AI is involved.

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