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How to Build a Self-Improving Company with AI

21.05.2026 99,870 views
Published: 21.05.2026 Category: Startups and entrepreneurship Views: 99,870

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In this recent batch talk, YC General Partner Tom Blomfield breaks down how to build a self-improving company using AI. He'll cover how to create a series of recursive, self-improving AI loops and explain why the founders who get this right will run companies that can improve while they sleep. Chapters: 00:00 — Companies Are Roman Legions 00:54 — Copilots Are the Wrong Mental Model 01:55 — Extract the Domain Knowledge 02:24 — The Recursive Self-Improving Loop 04:12 — The Holy Shit Moment at YC 05:50 — Self-Optimizing Product and Support Loops 06:29 — Burn Tokens, Not Headcount 07:23 — Middle Management Is Over 08:05 — Make Everything Legible to AI 09:40 — Regenerating the YC User Manual 11:19 — Software Is Ephemeral, Context Is Valuable 12:18 — Where Humans Still Matter Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply Work at a startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs

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