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Re: Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup

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Post by ta-run » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 9:49 PM UTC

This is doing more to keep me away from "vibe coding" than anything else. Look, I'm genuinely interested in using AI as a tool and trying to boost my productivity in any way possible - I equate this to activities from the past like learning shortcuts of my editor, learning to type fast, and so on - but, the almost persuasive nature of this README, just pushes me away.

Not to mention using lines of code as a metric of usability is just _whatever_.

Re: Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup

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Post by CactusBlue » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 9:49 PM UTC

Mostly just markdown-based skills. I've personally had more luck with harnesses, preconfigured permissions, and scripts to automate the frequent workflows, and the repo seems pretty light on that.

Re: Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup

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Post by vessenes » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 9:50 PM UTC

Interesting to compare this to Gastown. I also have been starting with a design mode, but I have been doing the ceo side myself. I also rely almost solely on codex for audit - Claude is just too eager and optimistic to make a good auditor.

Re: Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup

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Post by jazzpush2 » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 9:50 PM UTC

That's an absolute insane amount of code 'created', but the natural follow up is: for what? Are there examples of what this software has created?

Re: Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup

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Post by claudiug » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 9:51 PM UTC

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Re: Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup

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Post by input_sh » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 9:51 PM UTC

rovr138 wrote: post #14

input_sh wrote: 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%?

Considering he mentions ten sessions at once and I'm pretty confident he wouldn't tolerate waiting for the quota to reset itself... maybe like high four digits with the discount applied, definitely five without it.

I could be underestimating both by a digit.

Re: Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup

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Post by Marciplan » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 9:51 PM UTC

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Re: Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup

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Post by ed_mercer » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 9:52 PM UTC

The problem with this is that it all runs local on someone's computer, whereas with openclaw you can involve your teammates (e.g. on slack) which is much more powerful.

Re: Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup

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Post by Sherveen » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 9:53 PM UTC

As I said on Product Hunt (which upset Garry quite a lot) --

If he weren't the CEO of YC, this wouldn't be on PH, and it wouldn't be on HN.

This is not an impressive setup, folks. It's overengineered and deeply into its own form -- it will not make your agents better, and is likely to make it worse. There are lots of other people to follow/learn from/mimic for skills/context engineering.

Re: Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup

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Post by rileymichael » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 9:53 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #8

“Gary, this is a text file.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6nem-F8AG8

>somewhere right now, an LLM is saying 'great work' to a man who just committed a text file to github

this is fantastic, my exact thoughts looking at this repo