![]() "Let me be upfront: I honestly don't know what this is at Reddit," he says. Williams does stress how it's close to impossible to really estimate the cost of a software engineer over the length of a project. "That means an Android developer could save about 22 minutes of build time every day." "We observed that the new 2021 M1 Max MacBook finished a clean build of our Android repo in half the time of a 2019 Intel i9 MacBook ," he continued. "To start, I estimated that an average Android engineer spends 45 minutes waiting on builds each day." ![]() "The basic premise of the tweet was to weigh the up-front cost of buying some new laptops, alongside the opportunity cost of not doing so," he writes. Writing on Reddit's engineering blog, Williams repeats his original tweet before expanding on the point that, "engineering hours are much more expensive than laptops." Now Reddit staff engineer Jameson Williams has detailed how the company came to its conclusion - and why the new machines make such a difference. Just as Uber and Twitter have been giving their engineers fully-loaded M1 Max MacBook Pro models, so has Reddit.
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