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When AI Costs More Than the Engineer

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 per employee per year against a likely all-in comp of $500k+.2 The rest of the software market trails. The top 1% of companies spend $89k per engineer per year on AI, 40% of a fully-loaded $224k senior engineer salary3.4 The median spends $137. That is the gap : 2.3x at the frontier, 0.4x at the top of the market, near zero at the media...

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