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Gary Tan states that with modern AI tools, he is producing 400 times the amount of work compared to the last time he was actively coding.
Gary Tan's G-Stack framework integrates Codex to act as a "200 IQ nearly nonverbal CTO" that finds bugs in code, which are then reported back to Claude Code for remediation.
Gary Tan's "thin harness, fat skills" philosophy advocates for defining complex, nuanced agentic behavior in detailed Markdown prompts ("fat skills") and using simple, deterministic code for the execution loop and tool calls ("thin harness").
After normalizing for logical lines of code, Gary Tan found his programming productivity with AI tools was 400 times greater than his 2013 output, as the normalization process reduced his 2013 LOC count by 70%.
Gary Tan predicts that by this time next year, every person on the planet will have their own personal AI.
Gary Tan believes society faces a choice between user-controlled personal AIs and corporate-controlled AIs that function like the Facebook feed algorithm.
In the last couple of months, Gary Tan has shipped hundreds of thousands of lines of code and built open source projects that have grown to over 100,000 stars on GitHub while also running Y Combinator full-time.
To organize politically in California, Gary Tan started a 501(c)(4) organization, a 501(c)(3) organization, and a Political Action Committee (PAC).
In San Francisco public schools, it is very difficult for a seventh or eighth-grade middle school student to be able to take algebra.
Twitter acquired Posterous, Gary Tan's first YC startup, for approximately $20 million.
Gary Tan rebuilt his Posterous blogging platform for a third time in five days at a cost of $200 using a Cloud Code Max account.
For his agentic systems, Gary Tan uses Perplexity's API and X's Grok API for deep research capabilities.