Y Combinator’s Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan said on Walter Isaacson's podcast The Builders that he spends roughly $100,000 to $200,000 a year on tokens, using AI agents for work projects, coding tasks, and personal tasks like reading his email, Dropbox, and Apple Notes. He has shared 23 Claude Code skills called gstack on GitHub, and said YC uses an internal agent named Stray Light with context on every founder it has backed. Tan said personal AI agents will go mainstream only if costs come down, calling his spending "a crazy privilege that not everyone can do."