When AI Costs More Than the Engineer (opens in a new tab)

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In short : 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. Anthropic spends 2.3x its payroll on compute. 1 With ~5,000 employees & roughly $10b in inference & training spend in 2026, that works out to about $2m of compute per employee per year against a likely all-in comp of $500k+. 2 The rest of the software market…

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