AITomasz Tunguz1 day ago
When AI Costs More Than the Engineer
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Anthropic spends 2.3 times its payroll on compute, or $515,000 per engineer annually against a $224,000 fully-loaded salary. The top 1% of software companies spend $89,000 per engineer on AI, while the median spends $137. Three 2029 scenarios bracket how this gap closes.
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