Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup

rileymichael

> 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

therobots927

This reads like a a child telling you about their toys and making up fun little stories about how they all interact together. Or showing you their Minecraft server. How about you explain why anyone should care about this Gary, and no, lines of code aren’t a good reason.

observationist

Omg, this is like god mode. edit: There's a few funny threads on other social media. Honestly, though, let a guy get excited, when you find new ways of using new tech; he's one of the lucky 10,000 who has discovered prompt scaffolds. There are better, bespoke tools for more targeted tasks.

garrettjoecox

Missing a satire disclaimer

toomuchtodo

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

input_sh

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%.

heliumtera

I swear to God I'm making a script to write \n to a file and call it productivity increase on social media. What a disgrace, hacker culture died to this

hnrodey

Why should anyone care about this?

fcpk

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....

MaxLeiter

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...

zkr

I am seriously worried about this guy's mental health at this point.

ballooney

In the last 60 days I have written over 600,000 lines of production code No you haven't.

ta-run

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_.

CactusBlue

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.

vessenes

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.

jazzpush2

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?

claudiug

is this https://theonion.com/ article here? jesus christ...

Marciplan

He's such a basic person

ed_mercer

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.

Sherveen

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.