It's absolutely insane, 1500 * 12 is north of 17K dollars, I know that in Google outside of few specific cities and roles.
Getting a 17k bump in salary is good enough to switch, if I was being 17k extra I am more than willing to use my local qwen and hand code most if not all stuff.
Companies can pay for code review tools to make life easier but writing code with AI if it's 10-15% pay cut is just too much.
Everyone is happy right now because this money hasn't been a line item in your salary/benefits.
Imagine 10k yearly AI allowance, I will probably just ask to keep that money.
All the work I do if I was judicious I could do just as much with a 20$ spend or on a local model.
Few tasks need Mythos like models, and if your task does you are already doing too much with AI