TL;DR

• •Most engineering teams operate without clear understanding of their true monthly cost (estimated €87k/month for an 8-person team).
• •Internal platform teams must save users ~3 hours/week to break even, a metric often untracked.
• •LLMs are forcing a re-evaluation of engineering headcount as a financial asset, demanding greater cost awareness.

TL;DR

• •Most engineering teams operate without clear understanding of their true monthly cost (estimated €87k/month for an 8-person team).
• •Internal platform teams must save users ~3 hours/week to break even, a metric often untracked.
• •LLMs are forcing a re-evaluation of engineering headcount as a financial asset, demanding greater cost awareness.