Engineers climb the abstraction ladder: asking for $10K of Anthropic tokens, not headcount
curious_vii · x · 2026-10-16
Curiousvii recaps today's X Space: software engineers need to move one to three steps up the abstraction ladder, doing work that used to belong to PMs and CEOs.
- Days start with a holistic bird's-eye view
- The old corporate ask was more headcount; the new ask is "I spotted an opportunity nobody else sees and I need $10,000 of Anthropic tokens over the next week to execute"
- Leverage shifts from hiring to compute/model budgets — one engineer can direct massive token spend to do what a team once did
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