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Adds a data-driven blog post analyzing which engineering skills actually pay at YC startups.

What's in it

  • Post: apps/marketing/content/blog/does-using-ai-pay-at-yc-startups.mdx (~2,250 words, in the house deep-dive style)
  • 6 charts (public/blog/yc-skills-pay/*.svg) and a hero image (does-using-ai-pay-at-yc-startups.webp)

The findings (from 2,652 engineering jobs at ~1,400 YC startups)

  • Base salary is nearly flat across roles (~$170K).
  • Equity varies ~40x within a single salary band, and it inverts with seniority.
  • The skills that pay a premium are infrastructure and ML systems (Terraform, Temporal, CUDA, PyTorch). "Using AI" (Cursor, OpenAI/Anthropic APIs) carries essentially no premium once you control for seniority.

The charts were generated from a scraped dataset; the scraping/analysis pipeline lives outside the app and is intentionally not part of this PR.

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Data analysis of 2,652 engineering jobs across ~1,400 YC startups. Salary is
nearly flat across roles, the real variation is in equity, and the skills that
carry a pay premium are infrastructure and ML systems, not 'using AI'. Includes
the MDX post, six charts, and the hero image.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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