A developer audited the YC CEO's 37K-lines-a-day AI site. Then HN audited the audit. (fastcompany.com)
The frontend weighs 6.42 MB across 169 requests; Hacker News, also run by YC, serves its homepage in seven requests and 12 KB. The auditor, Gregorein, confirmed the whole list by feeding the files to a single Claude session.
That is where the thread turned on the auditor: anyone with a Claude subscription could run the same check, several noted, and Fast Company's own page pulls 29 MB over 300+ requests. The critique that outlived the pile-on wasn't about the bloat at all. It was about measuring work in lines of code.
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