The Minutes of Dylan Patel on ai costs https://minutesof.com/dylan-patel/on/ai-costs/ Everything Dylan Patel has said on ai costs: 2 verbatim quotes from March 2026, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it came from. en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:22:22 +0000 one of my engineers spent like $8,000, he's Canadian, so whatever, right, on on Cloud Code. Right? And it's li https://minutesof.com/q/5da5c0b1-975f-47d8-a583-ffb7c6ca3f70/ https://minutesof.com/q/5da5c0b1-975f-47d8-a583-ffb7c6ca3f70/ “one of my engineers spent like $8,000, he's Canadian, so whatever, right, on on Cloud Code. Right? And it's like, oh, shit. Right?” — Matthew Berman Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:07:47 +0000 ai costs Patel reports a single employee's daily AI spend reaching $5,000 and considers it acceptable given productivit https://minutesof.com/q/b6dc472f-c88d-478d-9da1-8b2d41f9516d/ https://minutesof.com/q/b6dc472f-c88d-478d-9da1-8b2d41f9516d/ “And his daily spend now on 4.6 fast 1,000,000 context is $5,000 a day. Jeez. And I look at the productivity, it's fine. Right?” — Matthew Berman Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:07:47 +0000 ai costs