Quotesby GlyphPaul Graham quotes on AI, with sources
Co-founder, Y Combinator · 7 quotes · latest September 2026
- The obvious AI variant is to let your users opt in to training your model on their interactions with it. Many will resist that, but if some don't, the model they get to use will outperform the vanilla one used by the others.
- You own the customer relationship, and the model companies are in effect component suppliers. The question is how easy it would be for them to engulf you, or even your customers.
- And even if you have AIs writing all your code for you, you're still in the position of an engineering manager, and good engineering managers should be able to do the work of those working for them.
- AI has blown this world open. Almost all pressure to write has dissipated. You can have AI do it for you, both in school and at work.
- I'm usually reluctant to make predictions about technology, but I feel fairly confident about this one: in a couple decades there won't be many people who can write.
- It will be the same with writing. There will still be smart people, but only those who choose to be.
- So a world divided into writes and write-nots is more dangerous than it sounds. It will be a world of thinks and think-nots.
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