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We love a good old social media roast, and Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan found himself on the business end of a doozie Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Tan, who in a past life worked as an engineering manager at Palantir and has more recently been a vocal proponent for AI acceleration, bragged that he and his AI coding agents have been deploying 37,000 lines of code per day across five separate projects. \u201cAbsolutely insane week for agentic engineering,\u201d Tan wrote in an X post<\/a> on Monday, adding in a follow-up post<\/a> that he was on a 72-day shipping streak.<\/p>\n Two days later, a Polish game developer and senior software engineer who goes by the username Gregorein decided to have a closer look at the actual results of all that shipping by taking a peek at Tan\u2019s AI-focused blog<\/a>. \u201cHere\u2019s what 78,400 lines of AI slop code actually looks like in production,\u201d Gregorein wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n Gregorein found these nuggets during his late March review of Tan\u2019s site code and network requests:\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The larger point is that while AI coding tools make it easy to pump out lots of code, it\u2019s really (still) the quality of the code that matters. Quantity, in other words, doesn\u2019t necessarily equal quality. Sure, non-coders can use plain language to direct an AI tool to quickly build websites or apps or new features, but if that code goes into production without proper scrutiny and testing, it can cause obvious functional failures, create security vulnerabilities, or introduce issues that surface later and force engineers to track down and fix the underlying code.<\/p>\n Gregorein isn\u2019t criticizing AI coding tools, or developers\u2019 reliance on them; as he\u2019s pointed out on social media, he uses the tools himself. But he\u2019s saying that the tools are still an enhancement, not a replacement, for skilled software engineering.<\/p>\n Neither Tan nor Gregorein immediately responded to Fast Company<\/em>\u2019s request for comment. Tan did, however, take to X<\/a> on Thursday to write: \u201cGood morning haters! Your hate makes me stronger. I love you all.\u201d His post was accompanied by a meme of a laughing Snow White.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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