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throxy describes itself as YC's first AI-native sales agent.
throxy is a YC P25 project.
Anthropic's Tariq mentioned that they deleted part of Claude Code's system prompt; YC's Gary Tan believes the harness will gradually disappear and in the end only Skills will matter.
YC's Gary Tan believes harnesses will fade and only skills matter.
YC's Gary Tan believes that harnesses will fade away and that only skills matter.
Legora's CEO Jacob joined a few weeks after YC and built the entire engineering organization from scratch.
Emergent's initial entry point at YC was automated software testing, and it later shifted to a general-purpose programming agent.
QM is an open-source agent Harness developed by YC for real office scenarios; its core consists of only three tools—remote sandbox execution, object storage read/write, and internal application publishing—and offloads all sessions to Postgres for centralized management.
YC collectively refers to not improving the system prompt and not updating the Harness's own architecture as Harness V1, which includes the agent specification, system prompt, round and tool-call limits, tool list, skill list, sub-agent list, and loop and context compilation mechanisms.
Morgan and co-founder Michael previously built Docker Desktop at Docker, and applied to YC with the idea of 'Docker Desktop for Kubernetes.'
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throxy describes itself as YC's first AI-native sales agent.
50%Unverifiedthroxy is a YC P25 project.
50%UnverifiedAnthropic's Tariq mentioned that they deleted part of Claude Code's system prompt; YC's Gary Tan believes the harness will gradually disappear and in the end only Skills will matter.
50%UnverifiedYC's Gary Tan believes harnesses will fade and only skills matter.
50%UnverifiedYC's Gary Tan believes that harnesses will fade away and that only skills matter.
50%UnverifiedLegora's CEO Jacob joined a few weeks after YC and built the entire engineering organization from scratch.
50%UnverifiedQM is an open-source agent Harness developed by YC for real office scenarios; its core consists of only three tools—remote sandbox execution, object storage read/write, and internal application publishing—and offloads all sessions to Postgres for centralized management.
50%UnverifiedYC collectively refers to not improving the system prompt and not updating the Harness's own architecture as Harness V1, which includes the agent specification, system prompt, round and tool-call limits, tool list, skill list, sub-agent list, and loop and context compilation mechanisms.
50%UnverifiedMorgan and co-founder Michael previously built Docker Desktop at Docker, and applied to YC with the idea of 'Docker Desktop for Kubernetes.'
50%UnverifiedWindsurf accumulated a large user base through YC.
50%UnverifiedEmergent's initial entry point at YC was automated software testing, and it later shifted to a general-purpose programming agent.
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