YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood

Re:YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer... by c7b on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @05:52AM (#48815622)

Hmm the list is a bit underwhelming. Basically, it's unnecessary requests, bloated JS, unoptimized images and generally poorly structured code. I would hate if that was where the average website is headed, but realistically, we were already headed there before LLMs. From the headline I was expecting CVEs, broken UX flows / business logic, leaked secrets.

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Re:YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer... by rwmj on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @05:55AM (#48815639)

It's good that no leaked keys were found in the front end code but the developer wasn't able to look at the backend where, if the quality of the front end is any indication, there are likely to be many security issues. Hopefully it's not all running on the same servers/network as anything important.

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Re:YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer... by c7b on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @06:01AM (#48815691)

I think we're on the same team, I find the general attitude towards security in the current AI scene scary. I was just hoping for a bit more ammunition than what that article gave us.

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Re:YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer... by mateuszf on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @06:01AM (#48815688)

That's because only frontend was reviewed, who knows what's on backend.

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Re:YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer... by shlant on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @06:45AM (#48815991)

I love that they made the comparison to Hacker News in terms of request sizes lmao. Yea definitely a representative sample

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