Garry Tan: His Personal AGI Is a Folder of Markdown Files, Shipping 400x His 2013 Output
garrytan · x · 2026-09-04
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan says his "Personal AGI" has boosted his output to roughly 400x his 2013 level. Key points:
- His AGI isn't a model but a growing folder of Markdown files — memory and skill files that get sharper daily, now 220,000 pages deep
- Instead of renting intelligence for $20/month, he owns a private context stack and never starts from zero
- On Paul Graham's "do things that don't scale": agents let one founder scale it for the first time — the advice never changed, the physics of startups did
- Quote: "Everyone is watching the sky, and the thing they're watching for is already in the room."
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