Y Combinator CEO spends up to $200.000 a year on artificial intelligence
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan revealed he spends up to $200k annually on AI tokens, utilizing agents across work and research tasks.
His setup has processed 20 years of personal files and emails, and he also published his collection of 23 Claude Code skills, gstack, on GitHub.
Tan revealed the details on an episode of Walter Isaacson's podcast, The Builders. He uses these programs for professional projects, planning, and preparing for podcast research.
What data does his system read?
His personal AI setup has read all of his emails, Dropbox files, Apple Notes, and personal notes from therapy sessions going back twenty years. He also published a set of 23 special functions for the Claude Code programming tool, known as gstack, on GitHub.
The internal system of Y Combinator
Y Combinator uses an internal artificial intelligence program called Stray Light. This system contains the history and context of every founder the organization has supported, as well as all the applications it has accepted.
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