> Now, did Garry Tan actually produce anything of value that week? I dunno, you’ll have to ask him.

Let’s not be naive. Garry is not a nobody. He absolutely doesn’t care about how many lines of code are produced or deleted. He made that post as advertisement: he’s advertising AI because he’s the ceo of YC which profitability depends on AI.

He’s just shipping ads.

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Terr_ 6 hours ago | parent [-]

"Follow the money" was always relevant, but especially when it comes to any kind of LLM news or investment-du-jour.

The cautionary/pessimist folks at least don't make money by taking the stance.

	▲	slyall 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A few do. At the extreme end you'll get invited to conferences but further down you could have other products you are pushing. Even non-AI related that takes advantage of your "smart person" public persona.