Our expense is roughly around 12.3 software developers when you break it down across all people related expenses. But we've spent alot of time and energy prior to this focusing on our ability to measure our software development output across multiple teams.
The delivery improvements are not evenly applied across all teams, but the increases that we have seen suggest a better ROI than if we had hired 12 developers.
It's genuinely hilarious how the same leadership pushing for RTO because getting people together creates magic, seems to have no issues trading those same people out for LLM's churning at specs.
Respectfully,
After a certain level of compensation, you are indeed judged purely off of input and output.
Workplace improvement does not justify your salary.
You will also find that many problems in the harder sciences do not get easier by throwing more bodies at them.
Comments like these remind me that some project managers think they'd be able to delivery a baby in 1 month if they simply had 9 women.
What local alternative could replace your Anthropic use? I have found none. I don't think many have, which is why most of us pay Anthropic, rather than using one of the numerous, far cheaper, cloud services that host "local" class models.
Most of us are paying for access to proprietary SOTA models, rather than hosting.
Info like this is useless without context like, how much revenue does the company earn? How many engineers do they employ? etc.
Our expense is roughly around 12.3 software developers when you break it down across all people related expenses. But we've spent alot of time and energy prior to this focusing on our ability to measure our software development output across multiple teams. The delivery improvements are not evenly applied across all teams, but the increases that we have seen suggest a better ROI than if we had hired 12 developers.
I guess if you think about your teammates as purely inputs and outputs and not people that can improve and contribute in the workplace in other ways.
It's genuinely hilarious how the same leadership pushing for RTO because getting people together creates magic, seems to have no issues trading those same people out for LLM's churning at specs.
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Respectfully, After a certain level of compensation, you are indeed judged purely off of input and output. Workplace improvement does not justify your salary.
You will also find that many problems in the harder sciences do not get easier by throwing more bodies at them. Comments like these remind me that some project managers think they'd be able to delivery a baby in 1 month if they simply had 9 women.
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Is it worth it?
He was fired before answering.
[but as his manager I can tell you:] YES !!!!
No, we can literally buy our own hardware for what we spend in a month and host our own local LLMs for company usage.
> and host our own local LLMs for company usage.
What local alternative could replace your Anthropic use? I have found none. I don't think many have, which is why most of us pay Anthropic, rather than using one of the numerous, far cheaper, cloud services that host "local" class models.
Most of us are paying for access to proprietary SOTA models, rather than hosting.
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