# I spent $20,000 on Devin in a month. Here's what I learned | Ryan Carson (solo founder)

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Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/i-spent-20000-on-devin-in-a-month>)

Author: Claire Vo

Published: 2026-08-24T12:04:02Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Lenny's Newsletter](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/lenny-s-newsletter.md>)

Topics: [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>), [Claude Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/claude-code.md>), [codex](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/codex.md>), [Claude](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/claude.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [OpenClaw](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openclaw.md>), [OpenAI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openai.md>)

Tags: [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [building](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/building.md>), [claude](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/claude.md>), [claude-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/claude-code.md>), [codex](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/codex.md>), [cursor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cursor.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [openclaw](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openclaw.md>)

## AI overview

A podcast episode featuring solo founder Ryan Carson discusses how he uses concurrent Devin agents and other AI tools for engineering, customer success, operations, and product work. The episode also covers monitoring accounts, managing pull-request workflows, choosing between Codex, Devin, and Claude Code, and using Claude Design with Codex.

## Source excerpt

Watch now | 🎙 Solo founder Ryan Carson runs 15 concurrent Devin agents to handle engineering, customer success, and investor updates, and he uses a handwritten list to keep it all straight