Recently, the CEO of incubator Y Combinator, Garry Tan, sparked considerable controversy on social media. He boldly claimed that through collaboration with AI coding agents, he can complete and deploy up to 37,000 lines of code per day across five independent projects, and even set a record of continuous releases for 72 days straight. This "high-efficiency" performance was intended to demonstrate the huge potential of AI-assisted programming, but it unexpectedly drew hard-hitting analysis from experienced developers.

Seeing Tan's frequent displays of "achievements," Gregorein, an experienced engineer with 13 years in the industry, could not remain silent. After thoroughly reviewing the front-end code of Tan's personal website, he found serious quality issues behind these "productive" codes. The data comparison was particularly eye-catching: when users accessed Tan's website, it triggered as many as 169 server requests, with a total load of 6.42MB; in contrast, Hacker News, the minimalist benchmark operated by Y Combinator, only required 7 requests, with a total size of just 12KB.

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Code review also revealed many absurdly inefficient details. The site includes 78 unrelated JavaScript controllers, which browsers must download in full even if they are never used. Even more astonishingly, the logo image exists in eight different formats simultaneously, including a meaningless zero-byte empty file. Moreover, some uncompressed large PNG images could have been optimized to a fraction of their original size using modern formats, but were directly placed into production.

This operation has been criticized in the industry as a typical symptom of "quantity over quality." Gregorein pointed out that although AI can instantly generate massive amounts of code, without necessary human review, it can lead to a lot of redundancy, leftover test scaffolding, and inefficient architectural designs. Pursuing "fast delivery" at the expense of performance goes against the fundamental principles of software development that emphasize simplicity and stability.