When AI Costs More Than the Engineer

In short : Anthropic spends 2.3x its payroll on compute — $515k per engineer per year at today's $224k fully-loaded salary. The top 1% of software companies spend $89k, the median $137. Three 2029 scenarios bracket how that gap closes. Anthropic spends 2.3x its payroll on compute.1 With ~5,000 employees & roughly $10b in inference & training spend in 2026, that works out to about $2m of compute pe

[nguyen-oi]

AIを回すコストが人件費を超えるのSF感ある。もうエンジニアはAIの給油係だな

[kiririmode]

エンジニアあたりのAI支出をSaaS利用料ではなく生産能力増幅用の資本投下としてモデル化すべき。エンジニア人件費と一人に年間数万〜数十万ドル規模のAI計算資源を持たせることのどちらがより高い限界生産性を生むのか