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> (is this the case for Anthropic employees?) It would be funny if the company paying software engineers $500K or more along with gold-plated stock options was
by Aurornis 10mo ago
> (is this the case for Anthropic employees?)
It would be funny if the company paying software engineers $500K or more along with gold-plated stock options was limiting how much they could use the software their company was developing.
- joshribakoff 10mo agoWhy is that funny? What company gives you unlimited resources? That doesn’t scale. Google employees can’t just demand a $10,000 workstation. It’s reasonable to assume they have some guardrails, for both financial and stability reasons. Who knows… if it’s unlimited now, will it stay that way forever? Probably unlimited in the same sense as unlimited pto.
- cma 10mo agoIf it takes a lot of back and forth it between lots of people it is more like a $12000 workstation or more after the labor for requesting and approving.
- seg_lol 10mo agoFolks in MEGACORP cloud env can spend > 5 digits a month and not get noticed.
- plorkyeran 10mo agoI can't get a $10k workstation but if I used $10k/month on cloud compute it'd take a few months for anyone to talk to me about it and as long as I was actually using it for work purposes I wouldn't run into any consequences more severe than being told to knock it off if I couldn't convince people it was worth the cost.
- groby_b 10mo agoIf an employee has a business need for a $10k workstation, I'm fairly certain they'll get a $10k workstation. Yes, accounting still happens. Guardrails exist. But quibbling over 2% of a SWEs salary if it's clear that the productivity increase will be significantly more than 2% would be... not a wise use of anybody's time.
- Aurornis 10mo ago> Why is that funny? What company gives you unlimited resources? Anthropic has raised tens of billions of dollars of funding. Their number of employees is in the thousands. This isn't like Google. Claude Code is what they're developing. The company is obviously going to encourage them to use it as much as possible. Limiting how much the Claude Code lead can use Claude Code would be funny because their lead dev would have to stop mid-day and wait for his token quota window to reset before he can continue developing their flagship coding product. Not going to happen. I'm strangely fascinated by the reaction in the comments, though. A lot of people here must have worked in oddly restrictive corporate environments to even think that a company like this would limit how much their own employees can use the company's own product to develop their own product.
- saagarjha 10mo agoGoogle gives most of their engineers access to machines that would cost that much. If you’re working on specific projects (e.g. Chrome) you can request even more expensive machines.
- codesnik 10mo agowell, not only their software but also hardware resources they're renting, but I agree they don't.
- perfmode 10mo agoTokens aren’t free.
- Aurornis 10mo agoWhen you work for the company supplying those tokens and you're working on the product that sells those tokens at scale, the company will let you use as many tokens as you want.
- blhack 10mo agoEspecially when the software they're developing is supposed to speed up the speed at which the software they are developing is developed.
- michaelmcmillan 10mo agoIt is a long-standing policy at Netflix for employees to pay for their own subscriptions. It ensures that employees "live the member experience".
- Aurornis 10mo agoThat’s for personal use at home. I guarantee the engineers at Netflix who develop and test video streaming aren’t doing so on their family’s home Netflix plan.