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Many users express enthusiasm for PostHog's shift to AI that auto-generates pull requests because it shows ambitious progress toward autonomous tools beyond chat interfaces.
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PostHog (YC W20) started as an open source product analytics tool. Today, its AI systems are already generating a portion of the company's own pull requests, and its vision is much bigger: self-driving software that identifies product problems and automatically ships fixes. At Startup School Paris, @posthog CEO James Hawkins (@james406) sat down with YC's @t_blom to discuss why the company made that shift, how AI is changing the way software gets built, and why founders consistently underestimate how ambitious they should be. James also shares why bigger ideas are often easier to hire for, market, and fundraise around—and how thinking bigger transformed PostHog. 00:53 — From Analytics to Self-Driving Software 02:00 — The Recursive AI Loop 03:25 — Why Products Need Intent Data 05:43 — Pull Requests Before Humans Arrive 07:05 — The Thousand Tiny Features Problem 08:33 — The Vacation That Changed Everything 10:16 — Co-CEOs Who Swapped Jobs 13:13 — Why Ambition Is a GTM Strategy 15:43 — Split-Brained Founder Mode 17:01 — European vs. American Ambition 20:22 — You're Default Screwed Anyway 22:31 — Building a Cult Brand on Purpose 25:47 — Five Pivots, One PostHog
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PostHog (YC W20) started as an open source product analytics tool. Today, its AI systems are already generating a portion of the company's own pull requests, and its vision is much bigger: self-driving software that identifies product problems and automatically ships fixes. At Startup School Paris, @posthog CEO James Hawkins (@james406) sat down with YC's @t_blom to discuss why the company made that shift, how AI is changing the way software gets built, and why founders consistently underestimate how ambitious they should be. James also shares why bigger ideas are often easier to hire for, market, and fundraise around—and how thinking bigger transformed PostHog. 00:53 — From Analytics to Self-Driving Software 02:00 — The Recursive AI Loop 03:25 — Why Products Need Intent Data 05:43 — Pull Requests Before Humans Arrive 07:05 — The Thousand Tiny Features Problem 08:33 — The Vacation That Changed Everything 10:16 — Co-CEOs Who Swapped Jobs 13:13 — Why Ambition Is a GTM Strategy 15:43 — Split-Brained Founder Mode 17:01 — European vs. American Ambition 20:22 — You're Default Screwed Anyway 22:31 — Building a Cult Brand on Purpose 25:47 — Five Pivots, One PostHog
this was an awful lot of fun!
PostHog (YC W20) started as an open source product analytics tool. Today, its AI systems are already generating a portion of the company's own pull requests, and its vision is much bigger: self-driving software that identifies product problems and automatically ships fixes. At Startup School Paris, @posthog CEO James Hawkins (@james406) sat down with YC's @t_blom to discuss why the company made that shift, how AI is changing the way software gets built, and why founders consistently underestimate how ambitious they should be. James also shares why bigger ideas are often easier to hire for, market, and fundraise around—and how thinking bigger transformed PostHog. 00:53 — From Analytics to Self-Driving Software 02:00 — The Recursive AI Loop 03:25 — Why Products Need Intent Data 05:43 — Pull Requests Before Humans Arrive 07:05 — The Thousand Tiny Features Problem 08:33 — The Vacation That Changed Everything 10:16 — Co-CEOs Who Swapped Jobs 13:13 — Why Ambition Is a GTM Strategy 15:43 — Split-Brained Founder Mode 17:01 — European vs. American Ambition 20:22 — You're Default Screwed Anyway 22:31 — Building a Cult Brand on Purpose 25:47 — Five Pivots, One PostHog
@ycombinator Allecta does this.
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@ycombinator PostHog going self driving is impressive, bigger ambition really pays off
@james406 For self driving software I would want the ability to give feedback to the system so it learns what I want and improves over time. Does such a feedback mechanism exist? and how much of posthog is self driven now?
@ycombinator PostHog keeps pushing the bar
@ycombinator Love seeing startups push AI beyond chat interfaces. As builders, it's inspiring to see tools becoming more autonomous. We're exploring the same philosophy while building FounderTools AI.
@james406 Self-driving software is the goal, but the messy middle is where humans struggle. We clean up those thoughts before they become PRs.
@ycombinator Is there a way to identify which ones are ai generated? It still looks like the majority of contributions by far are human.