“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 non-programmer employee now spends $5,000 daily using Claude Code to build tools via natural language.
“I'm just telling you what to do and it's doing these things. And his daily spend now on 4.6 fast 1,000,000 context is $5,000 a day.”
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 says engineer spent $8,000 on Claude Code in one day, which he deemed justified after seeing output.
“Right? And it was because one one one of my engineers spent like $8,000, he's Canadian, so whatever, right, on on Cloud Code. Right?”
Patel claims his company moves 10x faster than competitors using Claude Code, enabling more hiring and business wins.
“It's actually insane. And so my plans of hiring and the business we win and the basis we're able to do is actually just growing.”
Patel says their AI spending equals over a third of employee compensation for their 90-person firm.
“We're spending, you know, more like, you know, more than a third of the spend, you know, employee spend, a third of it is also on top of that is AI.”
Patel argues that AI helps companies improve productivity by moving from Excel to twenty-plus-year-old SQL technology.
“And so this massively improves their productivity, despite the fact that this is all old, twenty plus year old technology.”