Y Combinator’s Garry Tan spends up to $200K a year on AI tokens for agents
Summary
TechCrunch reports that Garry Tan spends about 100k to 200k per year on tokens to power AI agents, using them for research, coding, and personal tasks. He relies on an ecosystem of Claude Code agents, including a publicly shared gstack, and even uses an internal YC agent named Stray Light with full founder context. He argues that AI agents will become mainstream, but costs must come down, and he cautions against relying on free Big Tech agents alone.