@Av1dlive: Garry Tan (CEO of Y-Combinator): "when someone asks how I 'prompt' my AI, the answer is: I don't. the skills are the pr…
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Garry Tan advocates shifting from manual AI prompting to skill-based automation, presenting open-source tools like GBrain and GStack to capture and reuse workflows permanently.
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@garrytan: Want to try GBrain but don’t know how? https://GBrain.io is the best easiest hosted way to get going
Garry Tan promotes GBrain (gbrain.io), a YC-backed hosted platform that gives teams one shared prompting workspace and a unified memory synced to ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor and other AIs, with team-level account permissions and automatable skills.