Jeff Dean says he would accept engineers spending up to $10M a year on AI tools

Jeff Dean says he would be comfortable with engineers spending up to $10 million per year on AI tools.

The remark was made in an interview with Deedy (@deedydas) on the Menlo stage, which also covered Discovery Loop, candidate interviews, recursive self-improvement, and Dean's own developer setup. Deedy says a video of the interview is due out soon. The only source so far is Deedy's post and a quote attributed to Dean, so the statement's context and any conditions attached to the spending figure have not been reported.