Y Combinator applications are getting longer, with more em dashes. Guess why.

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan has defended the use of AI in writing. Bloomberg/Getty Images Y Combinator partners shared application trends, including more em dashes and uses of the word "wedge." Applications to the startup accelerator have grown 60% in length over the past three years, partner Tyler Bosmeny wrote. Some suspect that YC applicants are using AI to write their submissions. If it talks like AI, and it walks like AI, it might just be AI. An application to the startup accelerator Y ...