To me it seems increasing throughput has long been a goal. For a batch processes, the options are larger batches or more frequent batches. YC has tried increasing batch size and later scaled it back (I have no idea where the current batch size sits in relation to the largest batch, they might be the same or different).<p>In other words, I suspect the change probably reflects changes at YC more than anything else.
> I can't help myself but think that some fundamentals changed over the past 2-3 years in the software space.<p>LLMs enabled many new companies & created demand for more products/startups.
AI<p><a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/launches">https://www.ycombinator.com/launches</a><p>Also they can process applications faster now!