alt Hacker News> Compare AI costs per-engineer-salary-dollar, because more expensive engineers probably need more expensive AI.
Let's see how this works out in the long run. For a historical analog, more expensive engineers don't use more expensive computers (by and large).
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fragmede • today at 10:50 AM
> more expensive engineers don't use more expensive computers
They don't? If you give your best engineers substandard hardware to work on, you're going to get worse output from them compared to if you give them more expensive computers to work with.
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Which is probably a backwards anti-pattern companies have built.
Your most expensive engineer's time is most valuable, so if you give them standard issue which is half the speed, you are throttling the value you can get from your engineer. Not to mention the mental drain of your cursor barely being able to move due to all the bloated virtual networking systemization.
It would seem to make sense to give more valuable employees faster equipment, so that their time isn't spent toiling with the slow machine, but rather actually producing value.