Garry Tan

From 2020–2023, cities charged affordable housing projects about $300 million a year in extra fees.​ If those fees were lower, that money could instead build about 1,250 more affordable homes ever...

A developer used OpenAI’s codex to port the entire SimCity (1989) C codebase to TypeScript in 4 days—without reading a single line of code. This is vibe coding at scale. The brave new world awaits...

Feeling the AGI

I wasn't trolling about my USB-C ports dying out. It turns out using older version Anker battery packs when out and about sometimes cause Apple power management to shut off charging from ports. L...

Speed to bug fix and great design seem at first to be two different functions One seems like a QA/code quality thing. The other seems like a product/vibes thing. But actually functionally they a...

I think about this movie all the time

Destroy personalized education and merit in schools and watch the public schools bleed out Hurts low income and middle class kids the most. Luxury beliefs in action.

Tom Steyer is running for California Governor on borrowed credibility. He built his fortune on the backs of prison labor, coal miners, and workers with no union representation. California deserve...

Tech folks are organizing for Sherrod Brown. I respect their opinion and why they might want to get him back in Ohio, but I don't think it's smart to support him at all. This is what I told them....

SF Teacher's Union bosses are striking out of fealty to the state union, hurting San Francisco kids for *no actual benefit* to the teachers of San Francisco (sources report SFUSD is under state man...

My sources in the district say even with the strike counting as unlawful, UESF doesn't care. Sorry, SF parents, this strike is about proving fealty to state union bosses. Also sorry SF teachers...

If you use any software, you will hit bugs. Only a tiny 5% of your users will ever report bugs. The speed at which those bugs are fixed is the true measure of a founder in mastery of their craft.

Smells fishy when a mid level state bureaucrat claims to want maximum transparency while advocating for less transparency

Ro Khanna going hard left to earn the endorsement of Bernie Sanders for president is resulting in some unusual bedfellows for the congressman who said he would help tech and ended up doing nothing ...

Sorry SF parents: The teacher's union UESF is engaging in an unlawful strike, skipping required negotiation steps of the CA Public Employment Relations Board Shutting 48,000 kids out of school for...

Bringing back raised measurement ceilings. Everyone getting A’s turns it into “everyone who cleared a low bare” Reserve top marks for truly exceptional performance, so rare talent is actually vi...

UESF deciding to strike and hurt the educations of tens of thousands of students when there is no expected actual benefit to the teachers is borderline malfeasance on the part of the union. Lurie...

This is why we need little tech. Big tech when it is growing is good. Big tech when the amount of work shifts to far less than the number of people? Sclerotic, bureaucratic, anticompetitive moat-ba...

‘Housing First’ is a big lie. ‘Recovery First’ is the fix. A Seattle frontline worker exposes what we all see in the encampments—and why California banned the cure. https://t.co/rcAPiJ3AdN https:...

We need to build housing in SF because this is only going to get worse as we continue to build tomorrow's best AI companies right here in SF Build housing, support new startups in SF, create prosp...