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Y Combinator’s Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan has, in the past, jokingly admitted that he’s suffered from “cyber psychosis” and sometimes barely sleeps because he’s so excited to be working with his AI agents.
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Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan said on Walter Isaacson’s podcast The Builders that he spends roughly $100,000‑$200,000 a year on AI‑token usage. He described his enthusiasm for AI agents as “cyber psychosis,” noting he often works late into the night. Tan employs the agents for a wide range of work projects and coding tasks, and he has publicly released a collection of 23 Claude Code skills, dubbed gstack, on GitHub to demonstrate their capabilities. The episode is slated for release on Tuesday.
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