You don't need a non-technical cofounder, but you do need a founder willing and capable of handling non-technical things.

If nobody in your startup team wants to handle sales, marketing, finances, and business operations, you're going to end up with working software that nobody's paying for.

>at this point it is a borderline scam to work for a CEO that isnt significantly better/bringing in capital

I never contested that. My point is that there are plenty of devs who think they should found a startup based on the mistaken idea that they can learn the business side of things overnight.

If you find mentors, or just pay people 200 an hour to meet once a week, a lot could be learned. I agree the gap is large, but it can be overcome

What’s YC’s track record in the new LLMs-can-code era?

Or are we talking about Dropbox and Airbnb?

most of the recent series A ai companies are YC companies, they are absolutely crushing it

What are their names?

Jared has an (unfinished?) degree in CS and Econ so that’s a bit rich for him to say. Why’d he bother with Econ if it’s so UsELeSs?