Post #1178605
2026-04-04 13:59 UTC
They wanted companies to normalise a dollar spend on tokens equivalent to half a dev salary per dev.
[They want to pay you in it too](https://medium.com/enrique-dans/why-engineers-are-negotiating-for-tokens-not-just-paychecks-c37dc68289e8)
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@ramble81@lemmy.zip 2026-04-04 14:20
That doesn’t answer the question. What determines “$1800 worth of tokens”? Is that value calculated from computer time-infrastructure cost? Is it what they think an equivalent of work would be for the time it takes the query to run? Or is it an entirely arbitrary number? If the last one, most likely they’re running at a loss and it’s gonna bite them hard when the bill is due for infrastructure.