The Minutes of Dylan Patel on spending https://minutesof.com/dylan-patel/on/spending/ Everything Dylan Patel has said on spending: 2 verbatim quotes from March 2026, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it came from. en Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:10:17 +0000 Patel says engineer spent $8,000 on Claude Code in one day, which he deemed justified after seeing output. https://minutesof.com/q/cd9ea565-3d6c-4e9d-bbba-f11510767fd8/ https://minutesof.com/q/cd9ea565-3d6c-4e9d-bbba-f11510767fd8/ “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?” — Matthew Berman Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:07:47 +0000 spending Patel reports a non-programmer employee now spends $5,000 daily using Claude Code to build tools via natural l https://minutesof.com/q/a2eba63d-9ceb-4f62-b7aa-b19fe5ecec2c/ https://minutesof.com/q/a2eba63d-9ceb-4f62-b7aa-b19fe5ecec2c/ “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.” — Matthew Berman Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:07:47 +0000 spending