$1,000 is maybe 5$ per workday. I measure my own usage and am on the way to $6,000 for a full year. I'm still at the stage where I like to look at the code I produce, but I do believe we'll head to a state of software development where one day we won't need to.
Maybe read that quote again. The figure is 1000 per day
The quote is if you haven't spent $1000 per dev today
which sounds more like if you haven't reached this point you don't have enough experience yet, keep going
At least that's how I read the quote
Scroll further down (specifically to the section titled "Wait, $1,000/day per engineer?"). The quote in the quoted article (so from the original source in factory.strongdm.ai) could potentially be read either way, but Simon Willison (the direct link) absolutely is interpreting it as $1000/dev/day. I also think $1000/dev/day is the intended meaning in the strongdm article.