alt Hacker NewsIt is already bafflingly expensive. I interviewed at a place recently where they said the average dev was hitting $2k/mo in Claude code costs.
That is no longer a helpful tool... it costs like ~15% of an actual dev.
Even if it is helping, is it actually... making things better or building anything truly important? The issue seems way too nuanced to spend $2k/mo. Not to mention the entire tech industry floats on hype and imaginary goal posts so now what? Devs can hurdle towards those faster and more mindlessly?
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ilovecake1984 • today at 7:54 PM
The real thing is that it is on tap. If I have to engage an Indian outsourcer to hand off easy stuff to it’s going to be much more painful.
> That is no longer a helpful tool... it costs like ~15% of an actual dev.
The full cost of each employee is more than their salary. The common estimate is 1.4X their salary due to all of the employer-paid taxes, benefits, and other things.
So even $2K/month of token costs would only be around 10% of the cost of a mid-range developer cost.
It doesn't have to increase productivity much to justify the cost.