[rationalist]

> YC wanted me to use something called Paxel on my computer as part of the application.

> I should run a script, a very easy-to-use cURL one-liner that installed something on my computer and analyzed every line of code I’ve written with a coding agent, compile a report, and upload it to YC’s servers.

Yikes! I hope this is NOT the future of hiring.

[zem]

the sad thing is that paxel sounds like it would be a pretty fun tool to run locally and see what my LLM assisted code gets classified as. instead, to borrow cory doctorow's framing, it is designed to do something to me rather than for me.

[palmotea]

> instead, to borrow cory doctorow's framing, it is designed to do something to me rather than for me.

That's nice framing. I believe the goal of American business culture (in general) is to do a much to users as possible, and do as little for users as they can get away with. Silicon Valley is the dumb partner who tends to say the quiet part loud.

[baby_souffle]

It can't possibly be an inevitable future. Something this would be super easy to game.

From their perspective, it's code running on an untrusted third person/adversary's computer... If only last 40 years of computer history could be any guide as to what might go wrong here ..

[moomoo11]

most VCs aren’t founders and those who are ex-founders usually made pretty terrible companies. very few exceptions. actually i can think of only one.

but once you have some money (like >5m which is achievable), you can throw it around a bit and you just need a handful of success stories built by someone actually talented.

then you take credit for it and craft a narrative instead, which is easier just like collecting management fees instead of building something yourself.

[prerok]

How is 5m easy to achieve? Asking for a friend.

[r_lee]

I don't think he ever said it was "easy"

[RGamma]

Everytime you think this it will be. Let's go back to analog.

[TZubiri]

Don't worry, it doesn't analyze your generated code, it just analyzes your source prompts, the thing that presumably generates the code. If only there was a word for text that generates a computer program.

[sergiotapia]

paxel my gstack until i submit

[moomoo11]

its for G brain types

you wouldn’t understand

[jaggederest]

For those like me who didn't understand the reference: https://github.com/garrytan/gbrain

[conartist6]

wtfffff

what do you think it says if you don't use AI

[tomhow]

It only uploads your AI agent transcripts, so if you don’t use AI there’s nothing to upload.

[dinkleberg]

Which indeed tells them something about you.

[conartist6]

I should hope! It's something I'd want known. Not something I think they'd like though. ...but being outside the mainstream can also have its benefits