When AI Costs More Than the Engineer

Summary

Anthropic spends 2.3x its payroll on compute — $515k per engineer per year at today's $224k fully-loaded salary. The top 1% of software companies spend $89k, the median $137. Three 2029 scenarios bracket how that gap closes.

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