PushButton AI Team ·
Everyone's obsessing over AI software. Meanwhile, the real bottleneck is quietly getting more expensive — and it tells you something important about where AI actually lives. Hardware engineers are no
Everyone's obsessing over AI software. Meanwhile, the real bottleneck is quietly getting more expensive — and it tells you something important about where AI actually lives.
Hardware engineers are now the hottest hires in tech, out-earning software developers for the first time in years. AI doesn't just run in the cloud. It runs on chips, servers, and physical infrastructure that most business owners never think about.
Here's what that means for you practically: the AI tools you're evaluating aren't equal. Some run fast and cheap because the hardware costs are already built in. Others will nickel-and-dime you on compute costs the moment you scale. That's often why that $200/month tool felt like nothing was happening — the infrastructure behind it couldn't deliver.
You're not tech-stupid. You were just never given the right lens for evaluating these tools. There's a difference between AI that's ready for business use today and AI that's still waiting on the hardware to catch up.
One thing you can do this week: before your next AI demo, ask the vendor where their tool runs and what happens to pricing when your usage doubles. The answer will tell you everything.
What's one AI tool you've tried that quietly disappointed you — and do you know why it actually failed?
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AI is making hardware engineers some of tech's hottest hires, with pay growth outpacing software engineers, new data shows.