software engineering jobs of today I think will not exist in five or 10 years. I think there will be demand for smart people who know how to wrangle these AI coding machines and if we want to call those people software engineers like so be it but I think the job is dramatically dramatically different. I think what's interesting here people have strong reactions when they think oh the job that I do or my friends do might go away.It's a very scary proposition, but if you look backwards at history, the first c ...

At YC, we want to fund more AI research labs. Many people don't realize this, but YC was the first investor in Open AI. In fact, OpenAI began life as YC research, our in-house research lab.OpenAI pioneered the concept of independent AI research labs, and we have had a front row seat to the entire journey. While OpenAI is doing incredible work, there are many unsolved problems in AI and still plenty of opportunity for new research labs. Sometimes people think that to do YC you have to be able to ship a produ ...

Soon, all companies will have one thing in common. Every employee will build their own agents to automate the repetitive parts of their jobs. We'd like to fund founders working on the infrastructure they'll use to do that.Internal agent builders. An internal agent builder is a tool that I can use to create an agent to handle mundane tasks I don't like doing. This infrastructure will need to access every other piece of software I use in my day-to-day.It'll need to manage permissions and send sensitive data s ...

Robotics hasn't had its Jad GPT moment yet, but we think it is almost here. Everyone has known that robots are the future, but that proved elusive because previous generations of robots were expensive, brittle, and only worked in control conditions. With the rapid improvements in foundation models, it is finally possible to make robots that have human level perception and judgment.That has been the missing piece. While consumer use case feature heavily in science fiction, some of the overlooked and most imm ...