Meanwhile YC President Garry Tan continues to support and defend Flock. I'm curious how he'd spin this as a good thing.

That little man has eroded any respect that he might have been a priori granted with his publicly documented descent into a vibecoding mania. I'm still in disbelief that the very silly photographer guy is the CEO of ycombinator. Ah well, it was a good era.

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globalnode 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

isnt it the same sort of reason you guys have actors for presidents? its about how well you can sell the message, not how good you are behind the scenes, thats what normies are for.

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nailer 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

He's using AI assistants and excited about it. So is Linux Torvalds, and all my other programming friends.

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toraway 2 hours ago | parent [-]

To the best of my knowledge Linus Torvalds isn't posting walls of text to Github breathlessly announcing he's 810x-ed [1] his "logical lines of code/day" compared to what he was doing in 2013.

And, lest you think generating "600,000 lines of production code in 60 days" [2] is potentially problematic, has also fully solved the primary failure modes of AI coding identified by Andrej Karpathy, once and for all: "Karpathy's four failure modes? Already covered." [1]

As someone who has experienced mania, including with a programming bent specifically, it's hard not to raise an eyebrow at the idiosyncratic human-y bits of his thinking floating up from the sea of em-dashes and it's not X it's Y in his manifestos.

Plus volunteering this [3] in an interview:

“I sleep, like, four hours a night right now,” he told his interviewer, fellow VC Bill Gurley, during an onstage interview Saturday. “I have cyber psychosis, but I think a third of the CEOs that I know have it as well,” he joked about his current AI obsession. (Tan’s assistant confirmed to us that he was joking. ...)

It’s like I was able to re-create my startup that took $10 million in VC capital and 10 people, and I worked on that for two years, and I took anti-narcoleptics — I remember, you know, sort of being on modafinil...

[1] https://github.com/garrytan/gstack

[2] https://github.com/garrytan/gstack/blob/main/docs/ON_THE_LOC...

[3] https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/why-garry-tans-claude-code...

	▲	nailer 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You don't know people that are missing sleep due to programming? ok.

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pesus 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's it anything like the comments I see on here defending Flock, it'll just be a bunch of attempting to scare people with the idea of crime, and disparaging anyone in favor of privacy as being pro-crime.

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mrhottakes 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Probably something like "but imagine how much money a few people are making from it!"

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fragmede 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If a school shooter was in your children's daycare, wouldn't you want there to be cameras so you knew where they were?

...is how I imagine that one goes.

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cyberax 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So you can then watch the shooting in nice graphic details, right? Or do you want cameras integrated with remote-controlled machine guns?

	▲	nailer 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The current school shooting response systems have 70 drones with capsicain.

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subscribed 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Cameras would get shot first. Come on.

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neltnerb an hour ago | parent [-]

Why? They likely don't plan to make it out and it'll make them more famous after.

	▲	not_ai an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly. If anything they will want to target those schools more. They want to be famous, they idolize each other.