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2025 was the year AI stopped feeling chaotic and started feeling buildable. On the @LightconePod, @garrytan, @harjtaggar, @sdianahu, and @snowmaker break down the surprises of the year, from shifting model dominance to why the real opportunity is moving back to the application layer, and why the next wave of AI startups may be just getting started. 00:50 - Anthropic models are most preferred in the latest YC batch 05:36 - Why aren’t there more AI consumer apps? 07:01 - Swapping models in and out is becoming the norm 09:08 - The big AI bubble question 14:37 - Space as the solve for data centers and energy 17:29 - Interest in starting model companies 21:01 - Vibe coding became a big category 22:23 - AI economy has stabilized 23:38 - The AI 2027 piece 25:49 - Founders still need to hire teams
Congrats to Channel3 on their $6M seed! Channel3 is building the connected database of every product on the internet. They provide developers and merchants with a real-time, universal product graph, enabling new AI-driven shopping experiences across the web. https://trychannel3.com/blog/channel3-raises-6m…
Congrats to @triggerdotdev on their $16M Series A! Prototyping AI is easy, but building production-grade agents is hard. http://Trigger.dev handles reliability, scaling, orchestration, and observability—already powering hundreds of millions of agent executions per month for 30K+ developers. https://trigger.dev/blog/series-a
Head of Design @ryolu_ helped transform Cursor from a feature-layer on top of VS Code into one of the world's leading AI code editors. He joins YC's @aaron_epstein on Design Review to talk about the path that brought him to Cursor, how rapid prototyping reshaped the core product, and how he's on a mission to break down the barriers that once separated designers and coders. 00:00 — Designers Becoming Builders 04:11 — Learning by Building, Not Studying 08:39 — Inside Cursor’s Design Team 13:30 — Designing Systems, Not Features 17:40 — Rebuilding Cursor Around Agents 23:15 — Prototyping With “Baby Cursor” 30:52 — Design as Sculpting 36:10 — The Future of Designers and Engineers
