Cooking fun AI systems & products @databricks. Prev: co-founder & CTO @ Hyperbolic, OctoAI (acquired by @nvidia) Apache TVM, PhD @ University of Washington.
A $500k engineer costs $2,000 per working day.
If $200/day of LLM tokens makes them 20% more productive (which is absolutely true today), that’s one of the easiest ROI in the company.
The expensive thing isn’t tokens. It’s underutilized engineers.