Jeff Dean: comfortable with engineers spending up to $10M/year on AI tools
deedydas · x · 2026-11-12
Interviewing Jeff Dean on the Menlo Ventures stage, Deedy asked about AI tooling budgets — Dean said he'd be comfortable with engineers spending up to $10M/year on AI tools. The conversation also covered Discovery Loop, how he interviews candidates, RSI, his new developer setup, and a live estimate of the compute needed to run Instinct. Video coming soon.
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