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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The corporate AGI you don't own
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gets better only when the company ships something.
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Your personal AGI gets better every single day you use it because every day it knows more of your life.
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One of these is a product you consume.
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The other is an asset you build.
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Almost nobody in the world has this second thing yet and everyone in this arena could have it by Monday.
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And I believe intelligence intelligence of this kind should be owned, owned by you, not rented.
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If you go forth and build this for yourself, twenty thirty-four doesn't have to be like nineteen eighty-four.
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You might ask why this personal AGI is happening only now.
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Well, I think it's because of what agents can do, and nowhere is it more obvious than encoding agents.
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In 2013, I was a YC partner building Bookface, our internal social network at night.
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I shipped maybe 14 useful lines of code a day, which, if you know the literature on programmer productivity, is
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Dead on median.
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That was me at full effort.
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This year I run YC full time, same brain, same hours, plus a five o'clock kid pickup.
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I did the math on my output and I'm at about four hundred X what I did in twenty thirteen.
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Now, before the skeptic in row three uh deflates that number for me, let me deflate that for myself.
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You don't trust the raw lines of code, fine.
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Apply the most pathological verbosity penalty you can stomach and assume the agent writes bloated code.
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Assume half of it is scaffolding.
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