India, Dec. 2 -- Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan on Tuesday hit out at Zoho, saying the Indian tech company "would be first to be competed away" because of the rising trend of "vibe-coding". Vibe-coding is the practice of amateurs asking an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to create code for specific tasks instead of traditional coding that is done by software engineers.

"Zoho's business would be first to be competed away by people building their own custom software built by people using @Replit @emergentlabs and @Taskade," Tan said in an X post.

"Why pay $30/seat/month for over-bundled SaaS when soon even non-tech ops ppl can vibe-code a custom solution in a weekend?"

The Silicon Valley CEO's attack on Zoho comes after the company's found...