Ignoring the bizarre inclusion of training compute for the AI company estimates, the other comparisons are still valid.

> The rest of the software market trails. The top 1% of companies spend $89k per engineer per year on AI, 40% of a fully-loaded $224k senior engineer salary. The median spends $137. That is the gap : ... 0.4x at the top of the market, near zero at the median.

So it's not more expensive than an engineer it's 40% as expensive, and for many companies use-cases the cost is virtually negligible.

Even here in Europe where developers are much cheaper than in the US, it still makes sense to pay for the LLM Enterprise subscriptions.