diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f173a8f5..c7ae304d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ When I heard Karpathy say this, I wanted to find out how. How does one person sh 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 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×** 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:** diff --git a/docs/throughput-2013-vs-2026.json b/docs/throughput-2013-vs-2026.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..08b79b26 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/throughput-2013-vs-2026.json @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +{ + "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 +}