""If you've been watching the last few YC batches, the pattern is clear: vibe coding has gone from a fringe experiment to a mainstream startup archetype," said Gabriel Jarrosson, managing partner at Lobster Capital, which exclusively invests in YC startups. Another tell? YC's venture capital partners are publishing best practices for vibe coding. "YC rarely institutionalizes advice unless they believe a pattern is durable," Jarrosson said."
""YC president and CEO Garry Tan said in March that roughly a quarter of its batch at the time generated 95% of its code using AI. And YC group partner Diana Hu said in a March YouTube video that Cursor had brought on more vibe coding inside YC beginning in summer 2024. Vibe coding, a term coined by OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy, is proliferating across Silicon Valley, including in some tech job listings and certain Meta interviewing processes.""
Vibe coding using AI has surged within Y Combinator batches, with roughly a quarter of a recent cohort producing 95% of its code via AI. Cursor increased vibe coding adoption inside YC beginning summer 2024. OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy coined the term 'vibe coding.' Investors and YC venture partners are publishing best practices and treating the pattern as durable, while YC-dedicated funds report increasing vibe coding startups, including nine in spring 2025. Vibe coding enables rapid development and new tooling, from phone-based coding to AI agent builders, but it can introduce errors and struggles with complex engineering problems.
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