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Post by smartbit »

mellosouls wrote: post #85

In a tangential earlier release, Gary Tan's own gstack: https://github.com/garrytan/gstack Use Garry Tan's exact Claude Code setup: 23 opinionated tools that serve as CEO, Designer, Eng Manager, Release Manager, Doc Engineer, and QA

YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48815117 (July 5, 2026)

Re: qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work

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Post by brookst »

brucehoult wrote: post #122
nojs wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Em-dash (—) is COMPLETELY banned. It is the LLM's signature stylistic crutch and it is the #1 visual Tell in production tests. There is no "limited use" allowance, no "natural language frequency" allowance, no "in body copy is fine" allowance. None. I guess the em dash is really dead.

I've been posting my writing on the internet since 1990, from a Mac where we all learned how to make en and em dashes, umlauts, accents, degree symbols, proper single and double quotes, and so forth from Day #1 and I have absolutely no plans to stop using em dashes.

Nice try, ChatGPT.

Though I agree with GP: models and harnesses are being updated so hard to avoid any use of em-dashes that soon it will be a tell of human writing. The the pendulum will swing back and forth, forever.

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Post by Planktonne »

mellosouls wrote: post #85

In a tangential earlier release, Gary Tan's own gstack: https://github.com/garrytan/gstack Use Garry Tan's exact Claude Code setup: 23 opinionated tools that serve as CEO, Designer, Eng Manager, Release Manager, Doc Engineer, and QA

This is the exact same as the breathless faddishness of celebrity news. "Use these seventeen different skincare products and you'll look exactly like Gwyneth Paltrow".

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Post by bfeynman »

Can someone give me an example where this is truly and uniquely useful? I've seen so many of these things and I can't tell if part of it is like mostly for enabling nontechnical folks to do more things or if it's some unlock and additive value. At end of day beneath it all things are just prompts, and then you can provide tools and context, but even then that's not even something I've found that useful to keep because context windows are still limited and bias propagations often need to be constantly corrected, especially when digital artifacts are not perfect representations of the real world.

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Post by CuriouslyC »

postalcoder wrote: post #120
danielrmay wrote: post #43

Interesting to see they shipped an "anti-slop" taste skill: > description: Anti-slop frontend skill for landing pages, portfolios, and redesigns. The agent reads the brief, infers the right design direction, and ships interfaces that do not look templated. Real design systems when applicable, audit-first on redesigns, strict pre-flight check. > - *PREMIUM-CONSUMER PALETTE BAN (mandatory, second-most-recurring AI-tell…

All due respect to the YC folks, but having a skill with 22,069 tokens is a major skill issue. Yes, ironic. My slop control skill is a thousand tokens. Biggest problem I see with the skill is that everything is prompted via negativa. smh. sorry to be judgmental but it's hard to trust a harness that comes shipped with a skill like this.

The YC folks know engineering hype, not engineering. Most of them have been out of the game so long and focused on other things they've forgotten their fundamentals. You can hear this explicitly in shit Gary says in a lot of videos, it's directionally correct but detached from fundamentals.

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Post by animuchan »

nojs wrote: post #92
danielrmay wrote: post #43

Interesting to see they shipped an "anti-slop" taste skill: > description: Anti-slop frontend skill for landing pages, portfolios, and redesigns. The agent reads the brief, infers the right design direction, and ships interfaces that do not look templated. Real design systems when applicable, audit-first on redesigns, strict pre-flight check. > - *PREMIUM-CONSUMER PALETTE BAN (mandatory, second-most-recurring AI-tell…

> Em-dash (—) is COMPLETELY banned. It is the LLM's signature stylistic crutch and it is the #1 visual Tell in production tests. There is no "limited use" allowance, no "natural language frequency" allowance, no "in body copy is fine" allowance. None. I guess the em dash is really dead.

This quote is so egregiously stupid, I'm instantly disinterested in this product now. No reason to assume the rest isn't the same applied cretinism as the quoted sentence.
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