OpenRouter CEO: Your Salary Isn’t Your True Cost
Summary
In the age of AI, your salary may no longer be your true cost to a company. OpenRouter co-founder and CEO Alex Atallah explains why employee costs could become dynamic, based on the AI models people
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Your cost as an employee is going to be a dynamic number and it's going to be dependent on how much that employee is effectively using expensive and cheap models to do their job. I advise companies to kind of like still do their normal management work. Like have their managers kind of assess how effective and productive employees are, but also line it up with how much their employees cost and then kind of come up with a quadrant of celebration. Like these employees are like doing a good job and they're pretty price effective. And then a quadrant of concern. these employees are kind of maybe doing a so so job and whoa they are not cost-effective at all their AI psychosis is off the charts and then you address the quadrant of concern so I don't think people talk about how you think of like e…
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