Hiring vs Compute: Engineering Teams in the AI Era
ivory_tang · x · 2026-07-12
The author poses a thought experiment on building engineering teams in the AI era: should you hire two average engineers whose productivity jumps 1.5x with AI assistance, or double the AI compute budget to cultivate a single top-tier engineer capable of 6x output? This sparked a broader discussion on talent density versus the ROI of AI resource allocation.
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