Garry Tan
speaker
1,293 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Aug
Garry Tan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 9 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 4.
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If a smart intern could follow it, an agent can run it.
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Which means uh actually a kind of profound thing.
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I know I caught a lot of flack for talking about this, but I think it's more true than ever, especially now.
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Markdown is actually code.
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If you can write clear instructions in English, you're a programmer.
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The compiler is a language model.
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And that's why it's not just for engineers anymore.
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At YC, our media people, events staff, finance team, people who never open a terminal in their lives are building skill files and scheduled jobs.
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One of our finance folks compiled about a hundred Excel workbooks into a single app she built with an internal agent.
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She's not a programmer, she's a manager of agents now.
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Everyone is about to be.
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The most important question to ask here is where is the computation happening?
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And there are exactly two answers, and confusing them causes every agent failure I've ever seen.
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Some computation belongs in latent space.
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Taste, judgment, reading what a human actually wants from a vague request.
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That lives in the model and you steer it with a markdown file.
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And then some computation belongs in deterministic space, the arithmetic, the SQL query, uh, for instance, the seating chart for what sessions you're going to go to today for your breakouts.
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Uh all of that needs to be stored in a SQL database used by the markdown files.
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Being smart about this goes a long way.
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Ask an agent or human to seat five people around a table.
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