Y Combinator Startup Podcast
00:34:16 · Jared Friedman, Garry Tan, Diana
[00:34:16] S2: I also wonder if managing coding agents is actually, like, in some ways not that different from managing people. [00:34:22] S0: Oh, yes. [00:34:23] S2: And so, like, people like Peter or you or or Boris Cherny and, like, Toby from Shopify who who have had whole careers, like, managing teams of engineers, actually, like, take to this super well and can, like, spin up huge teams of coding agents and manage them maybe more effectively than even, like, a really smart 19 year old who hasn't had those years of experience. [00:34:42] S0: Yeah. We we can be a little bit less abusive to our agents, try to understand where they're coming from. You have to catch their emotions, like, 99.9% less. Yeah. So, yeah, it's pretty helpful. [00:34:57] S1: I wonder what's the concrete advice for someone that wants to get started and wanna build a company, like, right now in the current era.
00:34:57 · Diana, Garry Tan
[00:34:57] S1: I wonder what's the concrete advice for someone that wants to get started and wanna build a company, like, right now in the current era. [00:35:06] S0: I mean, oh, just start prompting. I mean, opening up GPT six today was pretty wild. I mean, just that moment where your agents are, you know, palpably smarter. They... You know, a bunch of things that you've been annoyed about, like these bugs that, you know, you haven't had time to deep deep dive yourself. You just be like, actually, could you just go back to the list of things that you couldn't figure out? Like, look at your... You know, all of our last chats, and, you know, anything that looks like you didn't figure out, like, try to figure it out now, And it'll do it, like, every single time. Like, you know, it's... What a weird moment we are in history where you wake up in the morning, you like wire up a new model, and then these things that even a month ago, you're just like, why isn't it working? It just starts working. And like, you know, to think that that might be this thing that we get to do for the next eighteen, twenty four months, thirty six months, like, who... You know, I don't know when when it ends, but that's coding in the time of AGI, I guess. Well, that's all we have time for for today. But if you can't tell, we're all pretty excited about what's going on right now, and you should be too. So we can't wait to see what you build.