Gee guys… Did you maybe build a whole bunch of compute capacity for a product no one actually wants, and now you have to find a way to use it for something?
Corporate owned media promoting a story about making you rely on tokens to outwork your coworkers so you don’t lose your job is the dumbest shit I’ve ever read.
I remember when silicon valley used to build products that would help people improve their lives.
The reaper or capitalist enshittification comes for all industries eventually.
There was a brief, coincidental alignment of silicon valley’s goals and human progress.
Oh my god Iran. Just send the drones already
Maybe instead of food we can be paid in ozempic (to reduce appetite) and a very very tiny amount of food. all humanity would become very skinny, and then theres less health care costs due to obesity.
I should really be in charge here.
So that is why people think Grey aliens are just future humans! They took too much Ozempic and now they need to harvest genes from us to fix their own DNA.
“You can spend your scrip at the company store.”
You burn 16 tokens and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
You burn 16 tokens and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in tech debt.
Tell Berners Lee that I can’t go
For the company.
With Levels.fyi pegging the 75th percentile software engineer salary at $375,000, Tunguz estimates that adding $100,000 in annual inference costs brings the fully loaded cost to $475,000 — meaning just over 20% of the compensation cost could come from AI usage in the future.
and later
Tunguz has been building AI tools and models into his daily workflow and is automating 31 tasks a day at a cost of about $12,000 a year in inference.
This article is insane and proves me more that AI is product for rich people. Most of developers won’t see $100k per year paycheck in their lifetime.
This article is insane and proves me more that AI is product for rich people. Most of developers won’t see $100k per year paycheck in their lifetime.
These days an annual salary of $100k is at the very low end for most IT jobs in the USA (beyond the junior level). Even in my MCOL area $125k-$200k is more common.
I really, really would like to see what tasks he is automating.
You can look on n8n what is successfull. It give some idea
Construction companies should pay bricklayers in bricks and mortar
Uber should pay drivers in gas
Restaurants should pay chefs in raw ingredients
This is a radical idea, but maybe employers should be responsible for providing the supplies and tools their employees need to do their jobs? And the employees can just get money in return for their labor?
ceos get paid in empty promises and bad decisions?
Are arse reamings something they buy and sell, or a form of currency for ceo’s? What about female CEOs? (not that its a huge problem-- maybe those few old-guard female ceos just pay you in money).
“People like you aren’t in for the money!” – always and only said by people who are in for the money
employees can just get money
There’s your problem, right there, money is dangerous, can’t let the rabble have money - they might get too much and then they’d have power, power to disrupt the people who have money…
tbh, i always wondered by contruction industry types werent also paid in housing. like build X highrises you get a unit in one of said highrises
“Sorry, my mortgage servicer doesn’t accept AI slop as payment, so I’ll just take the money”
Sorry, Trump just ruled mortgages are illegal.
OpenAI exec highlights the rising importance of AI compute in tech job compensation.
In other news, Roblox executive thinks that having companies pay employees partly in Robux would be a great idea.
Yeah, I make 100,000 robux per year, get in bitchesRobux and pedophile-bucks.
God this timeline is so fucking dumb
It’s malicious, not dumb. The dumb is a side effect.
I can’t wait till these companies start falling over so I can stop hearing about their ridiculous shit
It starts to sound like the Romans giving out VIP seats for the Colosseum while you see the smoke and the first flames on the horizon.
We’ve had smoke on the horizon for a long time now but the fire never comes. We’ve all learned that smoke and screams is just normal.
I can’t wait till these companies start falling over so I can stop hearing about their ridiculous shit
If you have a 401k, selling “Large-Cap” indexes or “Full market” indexes can help. (and buying something else, don’t leave it uninvested, obviously).
What’s the expression? Markets can stay irrational longer than you can remain sane… or something like that.
or longer than you can remain solvent…
Yeah man, we’re going to have AI everything, we’ll all exist in a metaverse, and everything will be run from tablet computers that we can access from our car as it drives us to and from work, where we will work way fewer hours. Employees will still have to physically show up to work I’m afraid.
Fuck sake, dont you all get it. The point in this kind of AI is massive data harvesting and tie it all together.
It wont go away, because that would mean you’ll get some privacy back. You wont.
Imagine having tech employees beg their employers for a work computer. That’s basically what this article is suggesting.
I see a big silver lining on this cloud though: unlike a work computer, apparently AI subscriptions are not self-evidently worth having:
“It is starting to happen,” Tunguz told me, as employee use of AI increasingly contributes to total cash burn. “It is a consideration for the Office of the CFO.”
unlike a work computer, apparently AI subscriptions are not self-evidently worth having
Back in the 1980s it was highly debatable if there was value in desktop PCs beyond playing Solitare.
1981 was the year of the IBM PC, which was produced for 6 years and became a staple in the business world. Third-party software became widely available within a year. They were famous for the quality of the documentation.
Basically the opposite is true for AI’s flagship LLMs, for every one of rise things. The creators are unable to make money, investors are getting nervous, their functionality is poorly explained to businesses, the list goes on.
Can we link an article that isn’t behind a paywall?
Can you use archive.ph
Certainly not. This one seems to be the source article. And you know the problem with those archive paywall busting side. They are doing a DDOS on other sites and are serving malware. So I won’t link them. The article in question doesn’t have a paywall for me, so maybe clean your cookies and cache or install some paywall busting plugins. Some paywalls are also time based, so they start after a certain amount of days, after a certain amount of visits, and are therefore hard to predict. So no there’s no way to link another article.
