Autonomous coding agent repo earns a 'Fork and Apply to YC' button
Description
Screenshot of a GitHub repository in dark mode. The top bar shows navigation tabs: "Projects", "Wiki", "Security", and "Insights". Immediately below are repository counters: a grey "Watch 182" dropdown, a humorous grey "Fork and Apply to YC 2.5k" dropdown, and a grey "Star 27.3k" dropdown. On the code tab, a green "Add file" button sits next to a larger green "Code" dropdown; the latest commit hash "3fd0106" is marked as 5 hours ago with "1,381 Commits" in small text, followed by relative timestamps "12 hours ago" and "9 hours ago" on subsequent rows. In the right-hand sidebar, the bold heading "About" precedes the description text: "Autonomous coding agent right in your IDE, capable of creating/editing files, executing commands, using the browser, and more with your permission every step of the way." The image pokes fun at the explosive popularity of AI-powered developer tools - so viral that GitHub’s usual "Fork" button jokingly suggests applicants head straight to Y Combinator
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When the “Fork” button auto-generates a Delaware C-corp and a SAFE, the only DORA metric left to optimize is Time-to-Term-Sheet
When your AI coding assistant is so good it starts writing its own YC application while you're still debugging that race condition from 2019
An autonomous coding agent with 27k stars that can edit files, execute commands, and browse the web 'with your permission every step of the way' - because nothing says 'autonomous' quite like asking for permission before every action. It's like having a senior engineer who needs approval to rename a variable, but hey, at least it won't silently rm -rf your production database... probably
When the Fork button says “Apply to YC,” Unix permissions officially become r, w, x… and pitch - right before the agent asks for sudo in your IDE
1381 commits in 12 hours with permission prompts: finally, an intern that doesn't force-push to main
An “autonomous” coding agent that asks for permission every step is just a junior dev with sudo - the only thing it does without approval is click “Fork and Apply to YC.”
What could go wrong. Comment deleted
Can ai coding agents write new ai coding agents? Comment deleted
That’s literally the idea behind the singularity Comment deleted
If the AI agent can code a new AI, and then evaluate its offspring, and kill itself in favour of the new one because the new one is better… then you can get a feedback loop going Comment deleted
Now what happens when the AI has access to chip designs and a simulator? Can it make its own processor faster? Comment deleted
And when it’s running on the new processor, does it take less time to make the next generation of new one? Comment deleted
so long as people keep feeding it energy Comment deleted
What’s the repo url? Comment deleted
https://github.com/cline/cline Comment deleted
But where is the "Fork and Apply to YC" button? Comment deleted
it works on my machine Comment deleted
continue is better Comment deleted
The fun side of me using Continue with Mistral Comment deleted
can it finish my project works and write me a thesis? Comment deleted
Thank god it still needs data centre monkeys to go cable it up. If they make a robot that can run fibre optics we are fucking done, pack it up. Comment deleted
once there's robots that can lay fibre optic cables, I'll start calling them wife and make them wash my dishes Comment deleted
Broohooo that was good old photoshop Comment deleted
this is an english chat. I don't speak russian Comment deleted
me neither Comment deleted
oh I guess this is about "atomic heart" halfway in the paragraph? Comment deleted
…weren't the sisters actually humans converted to robots or something? Comment deleted
the twins are the protagonist's wife who was impossible to save surgically after almost dying in a mission, and she was a highly skilled FSB member so they decided to split her conciousness into two combat robots Comment deleted
https://makoto.sakamoto.pl/anime/000UNSORTED/video.mp4 Comment deleted
yeah Comment deleted
link? Comment deleted
Got this translation, but it doesnt make much sense Comment deleted
Seems like an article but the sisters in atomic heart like the lisa said Comment deleted
in the newest DLC she's back to one robot and you put a ring on her Comment deleted
major spoiler tho Comment deleted
here u go Comment deleted
I have finished it already Comment deleted
literally robot wife Comment deleted
like after the c compiler was programmed by assemble code, other c compilers were all made by c Comment deleted