Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan says he spends up to $200,000 a year on AI tokens

The startup accelerator chief calls his heavy Claude Code habit an investment and has open-sourced the toolkit behind it Garry Tan, the president and CEO of Y Combinator, has put a price tag on his relationship with AI agents. He estimates it at roughly the cost of a senior engineer’s salary. In a conversation with Isaacson, Tan said he spends “about maybe $100[,000]-$200,000 a year on tokens.” For most people, the monthly AI bill is a chatbot subscription. Tan is playing a different sport. The tokens in question are usage credits for AI models.