YC partner who attended Startup School 2013 as a freshman; deep user of frontier AI coding tools (Anthropic Opus, Codex), advocates for high token spend to reach capability frontier.
no scored calls yet — needs a stated position or a categorical verdict, with a matured window vs SPY
Open Code is a YC company building on open-source models that is 'very very good' for AI coding, demonstrating the viability of open-source alternatives to frontier closed models.