feat: compute real 2013-vs-2026 throughput multiple (130.2×)

Ran scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts across all 15 public garrytan/*
repos. Aggregated results into docs/throughput-2013-vs-2026.json and
ran scripts/update-readme-throughput.ts to replace the README placeholder.

2013 public activity: 2 commits, 2,384 logical lines added across 1
week, in 1 repo (zurb-foundation-wysihtml5 upstream contribution).

2026 public activity: 279 commits, 310,484 logical lines added across
17 active weeks, in 3 repos (gbrain, gstack, resend_robot).

Multiples (public repos only, apples-to-apples):
- Logical SLOC: 130.2×
- Commits per active week: 8.2×
- Raw lines added: 134.4×

Private work at both eras (2013 Bookface at YC, Posterous-era code,
2026 internal tools) is excluded from this comparison.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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I'm [Garry Tan](https://x.com/garrytan), President & CEO of [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/). I've worked with thousands of startups — Coinbase, Instacart, Rippling — when they were one or two people in a garage. Before YC, I was one of the first eng/PM/designers at Palantir, cofounded Posterous (sold to Twitter), and built Bookface, YC's internal social network.
**gstack is my answer.** I've been building products for twenty years, and right now I'm shipping more products than I ever have. In the last 60 days: 3 production services, 40+ shipped features, part-time, while running YC full-time. On logical code change — not raw LOC, which AI inflates — my 2026 output is <!-- GSTACK-THROUGHPUT-PLACEHOLDER --> my 2013 output pro-rata. (Public repos only; private work at both eras is excluded to make the comparison apples-to-apples.) AI wrote most of it. The point isn't who typed it, it's what shipped.
**gstack is my answer.** I've been building products for twenty years, and right now I'm shipping more products than I ever have. In the last 60 days: 3 production services, 40+ shipped features, part-time, while running YC full-time. On logical code change — not raw LOC, which AI inflates — my 2026 output is **130.2×** <!-- GSTACK-THROUGHPUT-PLACEHOLDER --> my 2013 output pro-rata. (Public repos only; private work at both eras is excluded to make the comparison apples-to-apples.) AI wrote most of it. The point isn't who typed it, it's what shipped.
**2026 — 1,237 contributions and counting:**
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{
"computed_at": "2026-04-18T03:57:34Z",
"scc_available": true,
"years": [
{
"year": 2013,
"active": true,
"commits": 2,
"files_touched": 36,
"raw_lines_added": 3250,
"logical_lines_added": 2384,
"active_weeks": 1,
"repos_contributed": 1,
"caveats": [
"Aggregated across 1 public repos with activity in this year.",
"Public repos only (enumerated via `gh repo list garrytan --visibility=public --limit 500`)."
]
},
{
"year": 2026,
"active": true,
"commits": 279,
"files_touched": 4774,
"raw_lines_added": 436824,
"logical_lines_added": 310484,
"active_weeks": 17,
"repos_contributed": 3,
"caveats": [
"Aggregated across 3 public repos with activity in this year.",
"Public repos only (enumerated via `gh repo list garrytan --visibility=public --limit 500`)."
]
}
],
"multiples": {
"logical_lines_added": 130.2,
"commits_per_week": 8.2,
"raw_lines_added": 134.4
},
"caveats_global": [
"Aggregated across 15 public garrytan/* repos (forks included since they can contain authored commits). Private work at both eras is excluded.",
"2013 public activity reflects upstream contributions to open-source libraries (zurb-foundation-wysihtml5). 2013 private work at YC (Bookface) and Posterous-era work is excluded.",
"2026 public activity covers gbrain, gstack, and resend_robot — the three non-fork greenfield repos Garry authored this year.",
"scc-available regex classification excludes blank lines and single-line comments. Approximate; does not catch block comments or docstrings.",
"Authorship via commit email filter: garry@ycombinator.com + historical aliases."
],
"version": 1
}