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Are you freaking kidding me with YC throwing money at something like this? I guess I can fund raise just by having built https://maki.sh, and months ahead of other founders too...

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I'm not sure why anyone would fund "creating an agent". OpenCode is competing with Codex and Claude already.

"The bullets" are not any different than other new agent projects. New agent projects pop up and die constantly and it's not from a lack of funding.

I think that if there are many players in the space, it's a problem worth working on! Like I said in the post, our main problem is speed and that's what we're trying to fix. It's been a problem, and it still is a problem. We have tried tools like OpenCode, Pi, etc. but for our speed issue, it did not fix it. If we go down dying on this boat, so be it, at least we went down dying on a problem we care about!

Meanwhile, Cerebras running Sol at 750 tokens per second, the harness "speed" becomes irrelevant compared to making better use of results from insta-Sol.

Yes, we saw this and it's really exciting, can’t wait to try it in Bullet. But faster inference only speeds up generation. In our own experience, testing, building, searching, and other tool work still dominate plenty of real tasks. We’ll have to test it in practice, but it’s a great development for everyone building agents.

YCombinator's investments are unfortunately very questionable nowadays.

People were saying that about YC in 2009, when Airbnb and Stripe were funded. YC’s philosophy has always been to invest in a great many companies, accepting that you can’t know in advance which will succeed, most will fail, but the ones that succeed will be successful enough to pay for all the losses.

That's not just YC's philosophy. That's how seed level funding works in the industry. Spray and Pray.

“Spray and pray” is a deliberately belittling term for an approach that YC largely pioneered and has delivered outsized returns over two decades. There’s no “pray” about it. YC partners work incredibly hard to attract and select the most promising founders and support them through their most nascent and fragile stages. They keep turning out huge successes, whilst also giving off the appearance that most funded companies are unimpressive. That’s always been true; it’s the easy thing to focus on for people who are motivated to be critical, but it’s a valueless observation.

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