The industrialization of IT
Here is some rough math:In San Francisco, entry-level software engineers make about $190,000 a year.Hiring someone costs more than just their salary; companies also pay for healthcare costs, payroll taxes, and other benefits. Conservatively, the fully-loaded cost of an employee is 30 percent higher than their take-home compensation, so the total cost to employ an engineer is about $250,000 a year.The best AI model for writing code is probably Gemini 2.5 Pro. For prompts that are under 200,000 to...
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