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Saved you two clicks “PearAI, an open-source AI code editor. When people looked at its code they found that it was a clone of an existing open-source project called Continue.dev.”

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Also worth noting that continue is also YC backed

Wait, so that's.. three open source AI code editors backed by YC so far, or more?

Including Void, Continue, and PearAI.

There’s probably a few, but it’s funny bc Pear is a fork of Continue

Why should people be dissuaded from clicking twice to develop a more nuanced take of their own than a two sentence summary from a stranger with unknown biases?

If the link is to indiehackers it's just going to be a forum post from another stranger with unknown biases.

Regardless of what you think of Pear, making the claim that they have damaged Y Combinator's reputation is pretty dramatic.

Knowing the title is in reference to Pear (and not something that could be _actually_ damaging to YC's rep) lets me know the article is probably isnt worth the time.

> Regardless of what you think of Pear, making the claim that they have damaged Y Combinator's reputation is pretty dramatic.

YC's main value is in subsequent fundraising, wherein companies are pre-vetted by YC before being invested in by VCs. If they lose the confidence of VCs as being a reliable arbiter of preseed startups, the better startups will just go elsewhere (already happening) and soon the VCs will too. Thus harming YC's reputation massively.

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