Anthropic spends 2.3x its payroll on compute, roughly $2M per employee yearly (tomtunguz.com)
Outside the frontier labs the picture inverts: the top 1% of software companies spend $89k per engineer a year on AI, about 40% of a fully loaded $224k senior salary. The median company spends $137.
One reader flips it: at 40% of an engineer's cost, and near-zero for many use cases, that is cheap, not expensive.
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