alt Hacker News$52K per engineer per year extra cost to the company. I think at an Apple scale that level of ROI should be easy. I wonder if they were not seeing the ROI they wanted? As an indie hacker AI has been amazing for me and has freed me up to do so much more.
I’ve been talking to a bunch of companies about how they use LLMs and I’m seeing dramatic differences in costs, with very few concrete measures of value. Mostly just PR counts. We’re talking order-of-magnitude differences in spending, from hundreds up to many thousands. (API pricing, not subscription prices.)
I’m not surprised companies are pulling back. That’s a decent chunk of money and CFOs are going to want to know what they’re getting for the money. “More PRs” isn't a good enough answer.