Y Combinator's Garry Tan deletes promotional posts for Paxel after controversy over the AI tool's local privacy claims

YC also deleted this post out of shame too. This is the middle of the end of YC.

@mil000 community notes cooked his ass 😂😂

@mil000 I wish they'd delete Garry Tan from the internet

@mil000 This just shows if you spray and pray enough garbage all you need is a small percentage of real winners to make it make sense. Gray Tan can be epically retarded and YC will still win because the funded a few unicorns.

@mil000 most obvious data farm. Its okay the only people who fell for this shit likely poisoned the collected dataset with their shitty code.

@mil000 is it just me or did Garry lose a lot of weight

@mil000 my gbrain is tingling

@mil000 True ! Tan is an idiot when it comes to technology, but in hype cycle everyone is an expert

@mil000

@mil000 It was basically letting in a backdoor to your entire codebase lmao

@EndorsiVal @mil000 ycomb dropped a 'tool' that analyzed how you interacted with your LLM harnesses by reading through all your chats (data perfect for RLHF suss-ily enough)

They said it all ran locally on docker and that your "code" never left your machine. But they were still harvesting chats

@garrytan "derived data" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there lol

would rather u just led with this from day one?

@mil000 what was the start of the end

@garrytan wait so the defense is "we only upload *some* of your proprietary code to the cloud" — this is exactly how cursor lost enterprise deals last year

@mil000 Maybe if their leader wasn’t such a pus who blocked any bit of criticism

@gursimran_p @mil000 gbrain and the head of YC getting LLM psychosis

@mil000 Deletion is terrible optics. But declaring YC dead feels premature. The real story: funding options exploded. YC's scarcity advantage just eroded. That's market competition, not collapse.

@garrytan Good clarification. The issue wasn't whether data is uploaded, but what exactly gets uploaded.

@Alex_TGH It’s free don’t use it then

@garrytan what is the mechanism used to separate user data from code before paxel hits the cloud?