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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 1093 days ago
> he could get a percentage of the $ saved

I'd take that deal in a heartbeat. I think I (and most other decent engineers) can probably point to tens (or hundreds) of millions of dollars in savings generated over the course of a single career.

As far as I can tell, it gets frittered away by empire-builders who take that $ and spin up new teams for nonsense. Kicking back a % to the engineers who harvested all the savings seems like a much better model.
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jjav 1093 days ago
> > he could get a percentage of the $ saved

> I'd take that deal in a heartbeat.

Same! That would be a very exciting and lucrative role. Unfortunately it's basically the opposite of what the industry does today. I think we've all seen the six-figures per month AWS bills to power infrastructure for a workload that could be comfortably hosted on a Raspberry Pi.

If the industry ever goes back to caring about efficiency and cost, sign me up.

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