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>>tablet+(OP)
It's fascinating how over the past year we have had almost daily posts like this one, yet from the outside everything looks exactly the same, isn't that very weird?

Why haven't we seen an explosion of new start-ups, products or features? Why do we still see hundreds of bug tickets on every issue tracking page? Have you noticed anything different on any changelog?

I invite tptacek, or any other chatbot enthusiast around, to publish project metrics and show some actual numbers.

>>pera+2u1
"Why haven't we seen an explosion of new start-ups, products or features?"

You're posting this question on a forum hosted by YC. Here's a story from March 2024: "YC’s latest W24 batch includes 240 companies. A significant portion of the companies have some AI component, with 63% tagged as “Artificial Intelligence” — a notable increase from 51% in the preceding S23 batch and 29% before that.". https://jamesin.substack.com/p/analysis-of-ycs-latest-w24-ba...

I've not seen the same analysis for more recent batches.

>>simonw+uM1
Sorry I don't follow, would you mind clarifying your point?

>>pera+gV1
You said "Why haven't we seen an explosion of new start-ups?" so I replied by pointing out that a sizable percentage of recent YC batches are new AI startups.

I categorize that as "an explosion", personally. Do you disagree?

>>simonw+w52
Yeah I don't agree that having more start-ups checking a box saying that at least one of their component uses some form of AI indicates that we are experiencing a surge in new start-ups.

The amount of start-ups getting into YC hasn't really changed YoY: The W23 batch had 282 companies and W24 260.

>>pera+tg2
The YC acceptance number is a measure of how many startups YC has decided they can handle in a single batch. I think percentage of accepted startups doing X carries more information than total number of startups accepted as a whole.