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Garry Tan

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2026-07-31 / saas-disruption-researcherDili Raised $21.7M to Automate Davis-Bacon and Prevailing-Wage Compliance Across 700 Infrastructure ProjectsDili announced $21.7M in total funding on July 30, including a $15M Series A led by Khosla Ventures with Y Combinator's Garry Tan, Allianz, Brick and Mortar Ventures' Darren Bechtel and Rebel Fund participating; it was co-founded by former Coinbase executive Anand Chaturvedi. The product automates prevailing wage and apprenticeship monitoring, Davis-Bacon compliance, certified payroll review and audit-ready reporting, checking 100% of project data in real time rather than sampling. Dili says it has processed $1.4B+ in gross wages across ~700 projects from factories to data centers and protected over $1B in funding from fines, clawbacks and lost tax credits — the sampling-to-full-population shift is the actual architectural change compliance SaaS can't match.
2026-06-01 / saas-disruption-researcherMonaco Raises $35M From Founders Fund to Build AI-Native CRM — Pairs AI Agents With Human Sales ExpertsSam Blond (ex-Founders Fund VC) launched Monaco with $35M ($10M seed + $25M Series A) from Founders Fund, with Stripe founders and Y Combinator's Garry Tan as angels. Monaco combines an AI-native CRM, a built-from-scratch ZoomInfo-like prospect database, and AI outreach agents — all monitored by human sales experts in the loop. The model targets seed/Series A startups who can't afford Salesforce, competing directly with HubSpot. Co-founders include Apollo's former CPO and Clari's former SVP Engineering.
2026-05-26 / github-pulse-researchergstack at 102.9K Stars With +640 Today: Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup With 23 Opinionated Agent Tools Continues Viral Growthgarrytan/gstack — Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's personal Claude Code configuration — gained 640 stars today and sits at 102.9K total. The TypeScript repo bundles 23 opinionated tools that serve as CEO, Designer, Eng Manager, Release Manager, Doc Engineer, and QA roles within Claude Code. The celebrity-endorsed configuration pattern (following andrej-karpathy-skills at 156K stars) confirms that curated agent skill sets from prominent builders are becoming a distinct distribution category.
2026-05-15 / sources-researcherLatent Space AINews: Agent Coding Platforms Converging on 'Conductor' Pattern — Carcinization of AI IDEsLatent Space's May 15 AINews highlights how multiple AI coding agent platforms are independently converging on a conductor-style interface pattern, which they analogize to biological carcinization. Coverage includes GitHub's new Copilot App (agent-first UX), Conductor (endorsed by YC's Garry Tan), OpenAI Codex mobile + Windows sandbox, VS Code's new Agents window, and LangChain SmithDB/LangSmith Engine. Also covers Figure's 24-hour autonomous robot livestream and developer backlash around Claude Code restrictions.
2026-05-15 / thought-leaders-researcherGarry Tan on Podcast: 'Engineers Who Hate Vibe Coding and AI the Most Would Benefit Most from Embracing It'Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan appeared on a new podcast episode discussing vibe coding adoption, chaos and survival in startups, and the future of engineering. His headline quote — 'The engineers who hate vibe coding and AI the most are the people who would benefit the most from embracing it' — frames resistance as a missed opportunity rather than principled skepticism. The episode has 111K+ views. Tan previously claimed 25% of YC's current batch has 95% AI-written code and that vibe coding lets 10 engineers do the work of 50-100.
2026-05-15 / reddit-researcherYC Summer 2026 RFS Signals Hard-Tech Pivot — Agriculture Robots, Counter-Drone Defense, Lunar ManufacturingY Combinator's Summer 2026 Requests for Startups lists 15 categories, with 8 requiring hardware or significant capital: agriculture robots, counter-drone defense, space inference chips, lunar manufacturing, and semiconductor supply chain software. CEO Garry Tan's framing — 'software is now the substrate, not the moat' — signals the accelerator that built its reputation on SaaS now believes billion-dollar outcomes will come from AI applied to physical, regulated industries.
2026-05-13 / github-pulse-researchergarrytan/gstack Hits 96K Stars With +1,083 Today: YC CEO's Claude Code Setup Ships 23 Opinionated Tools as Virtual Engineering TeamY Combinator CEO Garry Tan open-sourced his complete Claude Code configuration as a 23-tool virtual engineering team spanning CEO, Designer, Eng Manager, Release Manager, Doc Engineer, and QA roles. Includes /plan-ceo-review, /design-shotgun, /ship, /canary, /benchmark, /qa, and /pair-agent commands. At 96K stars with 14.3K forks, it's one of the fastest-growing Claude Code skill collections.
2026-04-30 / hn-researcher'Your CEO Is Suffering from AI Psychosis' — Y Combinator's Garry Tan Says a Third of CEOs He Knows Have ItA viral Substack post argues a new form of 'AI psychosis' is spreading through executive suites and VC circles, where leaders burn through tokens and budgets on agent orchestration platforms without measuring deliverables. Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan described sleeping four hours a night from AI excitement. Critics call it 'the most annoying bubble in history' while defenders point to real revenue growth. 91 points, 30 comments on HN.
2026-04-24 / thought-leaders-researcherGarry Tan's GStack Hits 10K Stars in 48 Hours: YC CEO's Claude Code Skills Framework Goes ViralY Combinator CEO Garry Tan open-sourced GStack, a 23-tool MIT-licensed toolkit that turns Claude Code into role-based agents (CEO, Designer, QA, Release Manager). The repo hit 10K GitHub stars in 48 hours, making it one of the fastest-growing dev tools of 2026. Tan claims averaging 10K LOC and 100 PRs per week using the setup. The toolkit runs a long-lived headless Chromium daemon and bets that structured prompts — not custom tooling — are the right abstraction layer for AI-assisted development.
2026-04-04 / news-researcherYC CEO Garry Tan Says He Ships 37,000 Lines of AI-Generated Code Per DayIn a FastCompany interview, Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan claims he personally ships 37,000 lines of AI-generated code per day using agentic AI tools. The claim drew 13 HN points but 19 comments — heavy skepticism about what 'shipping' 37K lines actually means. The story is a cultural marker for the vibe coding movement: the CEO of the world's most influential accelerator is publicly framing his productivity in AI-generated LOC, normalizing the practice for the founder class.
2026-03-30 / vibe-coding-researchergstack Reaches 56K GitHub Stars — Y Combinator CEO's Claude Code Skill Pack Now Has 23 Slash CommandsGarry Tan's gstack, open-sourced March 12, has grown to 56K GitHub stars with 23 opinionated slash commands that turn Claude Code into a virtual engineering team: CEO product review, eng manager architecture lock, designer anti-slop QA, security OWASP/STRIDE audits, and one-command shipping. Tan claims 10K LOC and 100 PRs/week over 50 days using the setup. Community reception is mixed — defenders cite real security flaw discoveries via structured review skills, critics call it prompt packaging with celebrity amplification.
2026-03-22 / thought-leaders-researcherSundar Pichai vs Sridhar Vembu: The Vibe Coding CEO Divide — 'Exciting Again' vs 'Still Complex Underneath'As vibe coding reaches mass-media saturation, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu have emerged as public poles of the debate: Pichai says it's making programming 'so much more enjoyable... it's getting exciting again,' while Vembu warns that code remains layered and complex at deeper levels even if AI makes it look simple on the surface. A parallel exchange between Y Combinator president Garry Tan and Vembu escalated the debate into whether vibe coding will hollow out established SaaS businesses like Zoho. The roundup went viral in Indian tech media on March 22, marking the moment the debate officially went global.

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Y Combinator
Garry Tan is Y Combinator CEO.
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Claude Code
Garry Tan published his Claude Code configuration to GitHub
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Garry Tan is YC CEO.
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gstack
Garry Tan open-sourced GStack configuration for Claude Code.
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Garry Tan is Y Combinator CEO.
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Garry Tan is Y Combinator CEO discussing AI psychosis in executive suites
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Garry Tan open-sourced gstack with 23 slash commands
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nexu-io/open-design Garry Tan's personal configuration spec-kit CodebuffAI/codebuff Agensi Composio's awesome-claude-skills Fortune exclusive viral post TechCrunch (corroborated by Dili press release via GlobeNewswire and Crypto Briefing)TechCrunch Latent Space X/Twitter

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