alt Hacker NewsIn some sense, devs are now responsible for a P&L the way a business manager would be, but I suspect that nobody is paying enough attention to the P part of it. When you incentivize people to spend as much money as possible but don’t hold them accountable properly for what they actually produce, this is what happens.
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dbuxton • today at 9:33 AM
It is just extremely difficult in most companies to draw a line between a specific feature and an amount of revenue. A lot of engineering has a stochastic type of impact.
(It’s often easier to see what a feature does to reduce costs though)
I wonder how it's possible for a developer to assign profit. The article mentions Uber's $1500 limit per developer per month. At work we're using an LLM to analyze Windows crash dumps, which turns out to be quite expensive -- several dollars per dump, and you might analyze many every hour. Others don't use AIs very much. Should those not using so many tokens donate them to the crash dump people? And back to your point, how can we assign a profit to this? Customers love having their crash dumps analyzed quickly, but that's not the same as it being profitable.