Monogram, co-founded by Eren Bali, launched a visual AI iPhone app and announced a $40 million seed round led by DST Global and Lux Capital. The app generates interactive visual interfaces from AI res…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan claims his company ships 37,000 lines of AI-generated code per day, but a developer investigation reveals the claim may be exaggerated or misleading, raising questions about…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan released gstack, an open-source tool that turns Claude Code into a virtual engineering team, enabling him to ship 40+ features in 60 days while running YC full-time. Tan cla…
A developer filtered a list of 12 open-source AI projects down to seven that improve coding agent workflows, including ByteDance's DeerFlow for long-horizon tasks, Garry Tan's gstack for structured de…
PGlite, a Postgres compiled to WebAssembly, has reached 10 million weekly npm downloads, driven by adoption for local development, AI applications, and testing. Major platforms including Prisma, Fireb…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan released G Stack, a CLAUDE.md configuration that equips AI coding agents with 23 specialist roles and 8 power tools to function as a virtual engineering team. The tool, inst…
A developer shared a toolkit of AI-powered tools for software development, including Anthropic's Claude Code, OpenAI's Codex, Garry Tan's gstack skill pack, Every's compound engineering plugin, Melty …
Despite a wave of criticism declaring MCP dead, the protocol's automatic update mechanism gives it a crucial advantage over CLI-based skills, which require user action to stay current. Critics cite co…
YC Partner, a new knowledge pack and Codex skill for Y Combinator applicants, launched to help founders review applications, prepare for interviews, and find relevant resources using a processed publi…
Y Combinator published its 2026 Requests for Startups, outlining 20 priority areas including AI for low-pesticide agriculture, counter-swarm defense technology, and inference chips for agent workflows…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan is on track to spend at least $1 million on AI inference this year, reflecting a broader trend of senior executives using large language models for tasks they find awkward t…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, which independent benchmarks show as an incremental improvement with mixed results — better efficiency and less over-agentic behavior in coding, but regressions in …
A developer secured their FastAPI application ratecalc.fyi by fixing six vulnerabilities in a single session using the gstack /cso security audit tool on Claude Code. The critical issues included an a…
The article reports that some AI startups are inflating their publicly announced annual recurring revenue (ARR) by substituting it with "contracted ARR" (CARR), which counts revenue from signed contra…
Garry Tan, the head of Y Combinator, is coding late at night to stress-test his belief that AI has dramatically shortened the distance between an idea and a shipped product. He is building GStack, an …
Vercel engineer Chris Tate developed Zero, a new systems programming language designed specifically for AI agents rather than human developers. The language treats AI agents as first-class users of th…
GitHub announced a new GitHub App designed for agent-first workflows, joining a growing ecosystem of coding tools converging on a similar "conductor" form factor. The move validates Conductor, which p…
Harshita Arora has joined Y Combinator as a General Partner, having previously served as the youngest Visiting Partner in YC's history starting with the Summer 2025 batch. A self-taught coder who buil…
After over a decade of serving as a YC founder, Group Partner, and Managing Director, Michael Seibel is transitioning to the role of Partner Emeritus. While he will step away from day-to-day operation…