Launch
ByteAsk: Your AI C++ engineer, and a swarm of them (opens ycombinator.com)
Hand it a C/C++/CUDA bug and get a tested pull request back, at what it claims is 68% lower cost.
NewsReported
Y Combinator’s Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens
Context: On Walter Isaacson's podcast The Builders, Tan put a price on his use of AI agents.
From TechCrunch: Y Combinator Garry Tan has jokingly admitted that he's suffered from "cyber psychosis” and barely sleeps sometimes because he’s so excited to be working with his AI agents. On a new episode of Walter Isaacson’s podcast, The Builders, Tan put a price tag on his passion.
- Source
- TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
- Published
- First seen here
- Edition
- Monday, November 2, 2026, ranked 27
- Status
- A publication reported this; the company may not have confirmed it.
- Topics
- AI agents, Y Combinator
