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Depends on whether the frontier models can keep on offering better performance. The real efficiency is getting work done faster and better.

Compared to a $100k salary, a few hundred dollars a month is insignificant. If you can make the employee even just a few percent more efficient, it’s worth it.

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> If you can make the employee even just a few percent more efficient, it’s worth it.

Are/were you in a position to make such decisions or it is a guess? I'm not but given certain evidence I doubt that few percent will cut it. I know some of the richest companies on the planet from SF Bay Area who won't give lunch for free to their engineers. So I'm not sure about "few percent" :-D 10x we were promised, now that is more interesting but we all know that 10x engineers is nonsense.

The cost of a full time knowledge worker in these companies is much, much, higher than the cost of a free lunch so there's more incentive here

How much efficiency is unlocked by providing free lunches? I was under the impression that was purely an expense.

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