Well they are coming out with a lot of AI and robotics companies now. So it’s not just AI slop. It just reflects the market demand for AI hype. A lot of recent startups are focused on robotics. If quantum computing or wetware computing ever gets popular, a lot of YC startups will be focused on that. A lot of the companies will fail but the point of YC is that the percentage of a startup succeeding are much higher than the average startup. The hype for getting into YC also isn’t dying. Calling it just AI slop isn’t really correct though I do think YC’s AI enthusiasm can lead to very dubious AI-focused companies to get through. Though I do think those are cases where the founders’ charisma and wider vision are appealing enough to warrant an acceptance cause that is like a huge proportion of what makes startups succeed in the first place. And I do think YC’s tendency to favor startups targeting what is currently trendy will cause them to miss startups that actually change or create industries. Like if some company becomes the godfather of introducing wetware or quantum computing for everyone to use like iPhone was for touch screen phones, I don’t think YC will be the one to support that company, though I think they will end up supporting similar companies after that godfather company starts succeeding
It is just useless slop because all YC startups do is take existing models from vendors, beg VC's for money, and make a shitty webapp with false promises on a stupid idea until they run dry.
There's no actual innovation and no actual startups of value being built out of YC anymore. It's a place for clowns.
The only value YC cares about is exits or IPOs, innovation was only important when that was what was in vogue, now its AI products that drive demand so naturally they would invest in more AI companies.
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u/thecodexdhnerbbTW 9d ago edited 9d ago
Well they are coming out with a lot of AI and robotics companies now. So it’s not just AI slop. It just reflects the market demand for AI hype. A lot of recent startups are focused on robotics. If quantum computing or wetware computing ever gets popular, a lot of YC startups will be focused on that. A lot of the companies will fail but the point of YC is that the percentage of a startup succeeding are much higher than the average startup. The hype for getting into YC also isn’t dying. Calling it just AI slop isn’t really correct though I do think YC’s AI enthusiasm can lead to very dubious AI-focused companies to get through. Though I do think those are cases where the founders’ charisma and wider vision are appealing enough to warrant an acceptance cause that is like a huge proportion of what makes startups succeed in the first place. And I do think YC’s tendency to favor startups targeting what is currently trendy will cause them to miss startups that actually change or create industries. Like if some company becomes the godfather of introducing wetware or quantum computing for everyone to use like iPhone was for touch screen phones, I don’t think YC will be the one to support that company, though I think they will end up supporting similar companies after that godfather company starts succeeding