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Re: Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup

#11

> In the last 60 days I have written over 600,000 lines of production code — 35% tests — and I am doing 10,000 to 20,000 usable lines of code per day and what is there to show for it? absolutely terrible metric

OK, I am an AI accelerationist, but this quote... Wow. Are we really back to measuring KLoC?

Re: Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup

#13
and where's the result? LOC as a side a measure of success is typical for the "omg LLM are amazing and can do it all phase" but once you enter the "actually shipping products people want with human complexity and experience meltdowns" it's usually different....

Re: Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup

#14
post #9

Looking at the README file, my first question would be what's his monthly API bill, with my second question being how much of a discount does he get as the CEO of Ycombinator. My guesses would be five digits and 90%.

> five digits

before or after the 90%?

Re: Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup

#15
LLM generated READMEs hurt my eyes

But maybe there is some cool stuff here. A lot of prolific AI-assisted engineers I know have their own advanced plan modes, and the CEO plan mode in the repo is interesting (although very token heavy)

https://github.com/garrytan/gstack/blob/main/plan-ceo-review...

Re: Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup

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post #14
post #9

Looking at the README file, my first question would be what's his monthly API bill, with my second question being how much of a discount does he get as the CEO of Ycombinator. My guesses would be five digits and 90%.

> five digits before or after the 90%?

Yes
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