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Gary Tan

Gary Tan is an American technology investor and entrepreneur, currently serving as President and CEO of Y Combinator (YC). He co-founded the design tool company Posterous and served as an early engineer at Palantir. After joining YC, he participated in investment and incubation work as a partner before ascending to a leadership role, directing YC's strategic direction and founder development programs. He is active in the technology community and has broad influence on startup ecosystem development.

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Oct 22

Anthropic's Tariq mentioned that they deleted part of Claude Code's system prompt; YC's Gary Tan believes the harness will gradually disappear and in the end only Skills will matter.

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Oct 21

YC's Gary Tan believes harnesses will fade and only skills matter.

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Oct 21

YC's Gary Tan believes that harnesses will fade away and that only skills matter.

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Oct 2

Lauren developed a plugin called PSTACK, which is a set of skills encoded as markdown documents, inspired by GaryStack from YC CEO Gary Tan.

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Oct 1

Gary Tan described Claude Code and Codex as "just-in-time software".

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Sep 23

Y Combinator President Gary Tan expressed the view that Muse will win.

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