YC's Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens

Posted by karakoram 4 days ago

YC's Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens(techcrunch.com)

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opengrass 4 days ago|

That's only 1 SWE or half with sloppy results.

didntknowyou 2 days ago||

so if he hired a PA instead would he have been more productive?

bamboozled 3 days ago||

What does he have to show for it? It helps him out to do research, seems like an expensive helper.

hartjer 4 days ago||

Kind of low isn't it?

wahnfrieden 4 days ago||

I spend that much at API rates with a couple subscriptions

lbrito 4 days ago||

"Do my job, make no mistakes"

That's basically gstack

slopinthebag 4 days ago||

he just needs to put the finishing touches on g-stack and then programming will be solved. just another $50k will do it i think!

ex1fm3ta 4 days ago||

hmm isn't that the job of a concierge, or an assistant ?

xhkkffbf 4 days ago|

Didn't you mean to use past tense? "Wasn't that the job ...."

ShadowOfThePit 4 days ago||

Touché.

Counter-point, they can't serve as a knowledgeable discussion partner, programmer, search engine, or your personal psychologist. Not saying that they should.

digitaltrees 4 days ago||

Why not buy hardware at that point?

TiredOfLife 3 days ago|

That usage probably comes from a couple of 200$ a month subscriptions. Hardware to run something that approaches frontier at acceptable speed is at least a million.

lambdadelirium 4 days ago|

Website looks still like shit

ShadowOfThePit 4 days ago|

I think it looks neat and simple.

Also...

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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