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Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup

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Re: Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup

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Post by mizzao »

nthngtshr wrote: post #37

I hope I’m wrong, but I’ve seen this pattern a couple of times with close friends: they get obsessed with a topic, their sleep falls apart, they seem manic, and eventually they start doing really strange things online and crash and burn. They usually recover, but by then a lot of relationships are damaged and they’re left with a lot of shame. Now I know these are symptoms of bipolar disorder/psychosis (they both even…

Can confirm this experience, as someone who took 10 years to be diagnosed with bipolar type 2 (the median amount of time, unfortunately).

But, if he is bipolar, he would have experienced hypomania/mania before. This wouldn't be the first time...

Re: Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup

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Post by jinglebell2025 »

Sherveen wrote: post #29

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.

Can you share some pointers of who to learn from? Link? Thx

Re: Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup

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Post by Sherveen »

jinglebell2025 wrote: post #52
Sherveen wrote: post #29

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.

Can you share some pointers of who to learn from? Link? Thx

The Every team: https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin (I recommend just learning from their strats and doing your own!)

Simon Willison's blog: https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-pattern...

Re: Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup

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Post by Sherveen »

amdolan wrote: post #44
Sherveen wrote: post #29

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.

> There are other people… Would you please share a couple? TIA

Check out the strats from the Every team: https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin (I recommend just learning from their builds and doing your own!)

Simon Willison's blog: https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-pattern...

Re: Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup

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Post by rovr138 »

yumraj wrote: post #31

I've been using Claude code for a while, probably written close to 100K+ lines over several months. It is always a learning exercise to see how other people are using CC and I'm sure I'll learn a lot from this, so thanks for sharing it. But, I don't understand what 600,000 lines in 60 days mean. Lines of code is one thing, but to do what? There still needs to be a loop where CC generates code, there is test automatio…

The best question is, what's been shipped in the past 60 days with those 600,000 lines.

Lots of people trying things for the sake of it, without really achieving anything with it. Maybe they have 'a setup' but the setup ends up being unproven.

Re: Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup

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Post by tomjakubowski »

arnvald wrote: post #39
Sherveen wrote: post #29

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.

I don't understand how adding an ad to every single skill is a good idea: https://github.com/garrytan/gstack/commit/9d47619e4c72136574... It just unnecessarily clutters the context, in EVERY single skill.

The stanza of co-authored byes in the commit message there is just incredible.

Re: Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup

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Post by tabs_or_spaces »

> 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 as a part-time part of my day while doing all my duties as CEO of YC.

LOC will never be a good metric of software engineering. Why do we keep accepting this?

I can generate 1 million LOC if I really wanted to.

As long as LOC is the main metric for these setups, they will never be successful.

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