alt Hacker NewsMy rent is less than that. But if you add up salary, payroll taxes, benefits, social security etc my employer still spends around four times that amount on employing me. More if you include misc overheads associated with having one more employee. Personally I could never afford 1500-2000€/month for dev tooling, but my employer should rationally be willing to spend that for anything that makes me more than 25% more effective.
I'm not sure today's Claude Code could ask for that. But I don't think it would be a crazy goal for them to work towards
There have been many many productivity improvements over the last 50 years that provided more than a 25% boost. I’ve yet to see an employer pay that much per employee for any of them.
Also a 25% boost per individual doesn’t necessarily equal a 25% boost to the final output if there are other bottlenecks.