> I think the important thing is this is much cheaper than hiring a software engineering team. They could have hired me for 200k and I could not do this in a year.

Sure, if you're wasting money in silicon valley. They could have hired in Europe and got three people for $300k, which is only double what they spent.

I think the time is the really significant factor, not the money. I bet if they had the option of paying $300k to have it done by humans rather than AI, but magically in a week instead of a year, they would have gone for that instead. $300k is nothing to Anthropic.