[dixie_land]

This is an interesting point but if I may offer a different perspective:

Assuming 20 working days a month: that's 20k x 12 == 240k a year. So about a fresh grad's TC at FANG.

Now I've worked with many junior to mid-junior level SDEs and sadly 80% does not do a better job than Claude. (I've also worked with staff level SDEs who writes worse code than AI, but they offset that usually with domain knowledge and TL responsibilities)

I do see AI transform software engineering into even more of a pyramid with very few human on top.

[mejutoco]

Original claim was:

> At that point, outside of FAANG and their salaries, you are spending more on AI than you are on your humans

You say

> Assuming 20 working days a month: that's 20k x 12 == 240k a year. So about a fresh grad's TC at FANG.

So you both are in agreement on that part at least.

[bobbiechen]

Important too, a fully loaded salary costs the company far more than the actual salary that the employee receives. That would tip this balancing point towards 120k salaries, which is well into the realm of non-FAANG