Garvin

founding eng @tomoji_ai | prev @amazon @northeastern

[Garvin @garvinc]

hi i'm garvin (realized i never really intro'd myself here)

i recently joined @tomoji_ai as a founding engineer working with my best friends @elijahmuraoka_ @mikelong107 @benanchetaiii

some facts about me:
> grew up in hong kong 🇭🇰
> was a photographer for @TEDTalks in high school
> built 2 startups (https://t.co/3fdbBUJxCO and https://t.co/hB139GMdEC) all the way to $0 ARR
> was the 5th engineer at a fintech startup that grew to $5M ARR
> shipped an AI privacy code analyzer at @amazon then left 😎
> living in LA, looking forward to moving to SF early next year

if you're into startups, photography, building, or whatever, let's connect!

[Garvin @garvinc]

@tonychang430 lfg tony

[Garvin @garvinc]

@tonychang430 @instabox_sh bro's cracked

[Garvin @garvinc]

my stack rn. what would you change?

[Garvin @garvinc]

@izadoesdev congrats!

[Garvin @garvinc]

@FlyaKiet i agree with hang here

[Garvin @garvinc]

@tonychang430 @instabox_sh big loss for the US. wishing you the best tony!

[Garvin @garvinc]

how do i explain to people that i'm on a work trip

[Garvin @garvinc]

@juampitech @bot take a look at this and lmk if this is useful for me

[Garvin @garvinc]

i might've discovered the DREAM coding setup 😮

orchestrator: grok @bot
coding agents: @claudeai
terminal: rex by @superlogical
cloud VM: @instabox_sh

what would you change about this setup?

and let me know if i should do a full breakdown on this

[Garvin @garvinc]

@CloudflareDev @bot save this for later and create a ticket for it

[Garvin @garvinc]

@brandur @superlogical and also splitting panes is super smooth

[Garvin @garvinc]

@hanghuang_ @instabox_sh no brainer move 😎

[Garvin @garvinc]

@kunchenguid @bot do this for me

[Garvin @garvinc]

i was able to cut CI time by HALF 😎

next goal: sub-minute

[Garvin @garvinc]

@immad @mercury @benanchetaiii

[Garvin @garvinc]

@CalvinHollywood @bot nice! do you use davinci mcp or something similar to cut your videos? i also wanna explore video editing with AI

[Garvin @garvinc]

my current Grok @bot team setup:

garvy: my right hand man. mostly anything non-engineering related, i talk to garvy

head of eng: i talk to this bot for everything engineering-related. it helps me spin up and manage cloud agents. if it's a big/complex task, i talk to the cloud agent directly

repo managers: i work on multiple repos so having one orchestrator bot would flood the chat. to prevent this, i have a manager bot for each repo that reports to head of eng

nightly audit engineer: cleans up the codebase at 4am everyday

nightly coverage engineer: increase test coverage of the codebase at 4am everyday

jenny, head of ops (inspired by @lingxi): have 1:1 meetings with my engineering bots where she'll learn about the blockers from each bot and update the engineering playbook accordingly

[Garvin @garvinc]

@exyonX @bot yup

[Garvin @garvinc]

@ayoships ice spice 💀

[Garvin @garvinc]

@tonychang430 @WorkOS send template pls :)

[Garvin @garvinc]

@AiPulse207 @bot yup i think thats the biggest bottleneck for orchestrators rn