Would you hire a new engineer, or get 300k worth of tokens for the team?

Would you hire a new engineer, or get 300k worth of tokens for the team?

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  • Hire an engineer and buy a beefy GPU. The foundation models aren't better enough to justify their high costs over open models.
  • Another option is to replace en existing engineer with someone of greater talent.
  • I would replace the eng. managers
  • Soon this equation will not be posed just for engineers.
  • I really would like to be a fly on wall during these executive meetings? Here is what i realized.

    Spaghetti code written by 5 developers will need 5 + 1 developers to manage.

    Same in the AI age spaghetti systems built by agents, will need a greater agent to untangle the mess that itself has created

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