[scarface_74]

I think you misunderstand the purpose. Who cares if it adds technical debt later if your goal is just to have something to show off to get investments? The goal of every startup is to get funding and an exit. The concern is not long term maintainability.

[WJW]

Even for the small subset of companies for which this is true, you need to have a successful exit at all. Technical debt is fine from that perspective, but only if the whole thing comes crashing down AFTER you sell. If it comes crashing down too soon, you have done nothing but waste a few years of your life.

Remember that most successful exits happen more than 5 years after founding. Having an AI vomit out a prototype in a week vs doing it yourself in 4 might get you seed funding marginally faster, but if it delays product development more than 3 weeks over the next 4-5 years it's still not worth it.

[bluefirebrand]

> Who cares if it adds technical debt later if your goal is just to have something to show off to get investments? The goal of every startup is to get funding and an exit. The concern is not long term maintainability

Not everyone works in startups, specifically to avoid this disgusting mentality

If I had to deal with this "build garbage quickly to get money and run before the house of cards collapses" mentality in my day to day life I would put my face into a wood chipper

I loathe people who think this way, and it is so miserable that all tech is becoming just a vehicle for this sort of grift

Robbing banks at gunpoint is more honest

[JustExAWS]

The article is specifically about YC companies - by definition early stage startups.