Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers
Gary Tan, after a 13-year hiatus from coding, has returned to building software at an unprecedented pace by leveraging AI agents, token-maxing strategies, and agentic workflows—shipping hundreds of thousands of lines of code while running Y Combinator. He argues that developers must now c
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