If you’re going to include AI training in costs, you should include education as part of the costs of an engineer …
And why only education? Everything the engineered needed so far should be included. Can’t have a dev that never eaten since they were born.
why stop there? Count how long and how much energy it took for evolution to produce that 3 chimp brain that is then educated, and add how long it took culture to produce the knowledge in text books for said education to be possible.
... and that actually shows - senior engineers have spent actual paid time to train juniors. Plus they used to spent time contributing to open source projects or Stack Overflow, all the stuff which every company benefits from.