Y Combinator CEO spends $200K on AI agents yearly
y combinator ceo garry tan spends $100k to $200k a year on ai tokens for personal and work projects. this highlights the high cost of using ai agents, making it inaccessible to many.
y combinator ceo garry tan discussed his extensive use of ai agents on walter isaacson's podcast. he spends $100k to $200k a year on ai tokens for projects and personal tasks. tan uses ai agents to help with research, coding, and managing his life, including reading his emails, dropbox files, and apple notes. he shared his set of 23 claude code skills, called gstack, on github. tan believes ai agents will become mainstream if costs decrease. he also emphasized the importance of controlling personal ai agents, rather than relying on big tech companies.