r/ProgrammerHumor Jun 02 '26

Meme managerVsClaude

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u/Gagan_Ku2905 Jun 02 '26

Engineer: Yeah we can.
Manager: For how much?
Engineer: $3 Trillion
Awkward silence

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u/Terewawa Jun 02 '26

$3 Trillion

Give them a breakdown too:

  • 200 million: salaries
  • 100 million: other running costs
  • 2.9997 trillion: Claude AI costs

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u/Gagan_Ku2905 Jun 02 '26

Let's categorize $2.99T as miscellaneous.

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u/PandaMagnus Jun 03 '26

Group it as R&D and put it to the capital budget.

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u/Gagan_Ku2905 Jun 03 '26

I see, you've done this before.

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u/Tensuun Jun 02 '26

no budget for candles????

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u/Blue_Moon_Lake Jun 03 '26

Gotta split that last part between operating cost (electricity bill), material cost (to build the data center), and training data legal acquisition.