Pete Koomen
General Partner at YC and creator of Optimizely; architect of YC's internal AI agent infrastructure.
“He has gone on to create all of our agent infrastructure at YC. So literally all of our harnesses and how we use AI internal to YC.”
Source→“The tool registry is where most of the like YC specific stuff lives... there are more than 350 today. Every team is adding their own tools... And now once these all exist in one place, you can make them available to these internal agents that we've built.”
Source→“It's this beautiful piece of software, which is just like the smallest possible coding agent. You can use Pi to modify and extend Pi, right? And it's this kind of idea of like self-extending and self-referential software.”
Source→“This was right around when Claude Code was introduced. It felt like this was giving me superpowers... you had kind of the first generation Windsurf and Cursor that were well-established by this point.”
Source→“Tom, one of the partners here, wrote a skill that teaches an agent how to take some context about a company and condense that into a two-sentence description.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.