The Minutes of Dylan Patel on ai spend https://minutesof.com/dylan-patel/on/ai-spend/ Everything Dylan Patel has said on ai spend: 3 verbatim quotes between March 2026 and August 2026, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:22:20 +0000 Patel reports AI spend skyrocketed in Q1 2025 but flattened in Q2 after initial Cloud Code adoption spike. https://minutesof.com/q/6cd826e2-2402-47ff-8934-987fe0ec7ddf/ https://minutesof.com/q/6cd826e2-2402-47ff-8934-987fe0ec7ddf/ “spend on employees really skyrocket, especially in the second half of last year and parts of this year, but then like the first quarter of this year, AI spend skyrocketed.” — SemiAnalysis Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:00:06 +0000 ai spend Patel says continuous AI spend is small; steady total reflects constant new project work across team. https://minutesof.com/q/6a01a15a-010c-443d-b8d5-c3bf5967d626/ https://minutesof.com/q/6a01a15a-010c-443d-b8d5-c3bf5967d626/ “It's actually just like people doing new work always, which then because we have enough people, it kind of levels out to be like a pretty steady amount of spend.” — SemiAnalysis Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:00:06 +0000 ai spend Patel says his company's AI coding spend hit $6 million annual run rate, with single engineers spending $8,000 https://minutesof.com/q/f4ce11be-2e08-4b2b-9738-5f30336af1ea/ https://minutesof.com/q/f4ce11be-2e08-4b2b-9738-5f30336af1ea/ “Literally, we we you know, like, one day my head of ops was like, guys, our run rate of spend is $6,000,000. This is not sustained.” — Matthew Berman Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:07:47 +0000 ai spend