Patel reports AI spend skyrocketed in Q1 2025 but flattened in Q2 after initial Cloud Code adoption spike.
“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.”
Patel says his company's AI coding spend hit $6 million annual run rate, with single engineers spending $8,000.
“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
“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?”
Patel reports a single employee's daily AI spend reaching $5,000 and considers it acceptable given productivity.
“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?”
Patel claims his company now moves 10 times faster than competitors using Cloud Code.
“Now with Cloud Code, think we move 10 times the speed of any of our competitors. Right? It's actually insane.”