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Garry Tan on AI-Assisted Coding and the Future of the CEO Role ==============================================================
Garry Tan on AI-Assisted Coding and the Future of the CEO Role ==============================================================  ### Garry Tan
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I am coding a lot, GStack is helping me do it, but also I want you to know I was stranded in Austin the last 24 hours due to weather, and also last week my mom was in the hospital and not too lucid for most of it, so I was coding by her bedside too. She's ok now and I just visited her at home and set up her medication.
I do have a full time busy job, and is it really possible for a CEO to be coding all the time? Frankly, I think it will have to be. The CEO has to set the future of the company. All companies will need to adapt to a faster world and do more. Boil the ocean. It's not about doing less and cheaper. It's about doing more and making 10x better products and services.
Is 16k LOC/day sustainable for me? We're going to find out if I can manage to get to L8 software factory. I have not done it yet.
But you can tell the models are about to get much much better. L8 is barely possible today, and I think I'm close. But everyone will be there soon.
I want to be one of the people who helps all of you do it with me.Show More
Mar 17, 2026, 2:16 AM View on X
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Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan shares his experience using AI tools to maintain high coding productivity (16k LOC/day) and argues that future CEOs must be deeply technical to set their company's direction.
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Garry Tan discusses his personal journey of coding extensively using 'GStack' even during personal crises. He posits a significant shift in leadership: that CEOs in the AI era must remain hands-on with technology to adapt to a faster world. He highlights the concept of an 'L8 software factory' and predicts that AI models are on the verge of a massive leap in capability, enabling 10x better products rather than just cost reduction.
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