alt Hacker News> That means each employee's AI spending cap is ~11% of that median compensation package.
when looking at costs - numbers make sense. however decisions as an org/company/solo founder - costs help you set prices, but to reach profitability you want to model around ROI.
now the question is what's the ROI for a $36K/investment per engineer or $90M for the total org ?
I bet the ROI is negative.
I'm in a similar boat - it's hard to measure, but let's say you pay an engineer 150K. Giving them a tool that costs 15K a year is effectively a 10% increase in that expense.
If we were seeing 3X, 5X etc improvement from individual engineers, that 10% increase in expense would be a fantastic investment (even 3 engineers for the price of 1.1??!). I have a feeling they are just not seeing that much of an improvement.