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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.

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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.

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.

This is a bit like a job listing for a trade or technician position advertising they will supply a vehicle.

No shit, I need a van to do my job. You don't really have a choice.

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.

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?

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."

“You can spend your scrip at the company store.”

I can't wait till these companies start falling over so I can stop hearing about their ridiculous shit

"Sorry, my mortgage servicer doesn't accept AI slop as payment, so I'll just take the money"

God this timeline is so fucking dumb

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.

"Random bullshit Go!" meme..

They've finally proven that ALL they care-about is preventing integrity from having any root in any economy they're infesting, & that ANYTHING that displaces correct-view is worth pushing, to prevent correct-view.

That changes the framing, in my eyes:

That means that it isn't what they're pushing that is The Problem: they're simply too machiavellian to bother negotiating with.

THEY are the problem.

I'd want private-investigators on them, & I'd want a good war-chest for prosecuting them, once their corruption's evidence was unearthed, enough.

People THAT anti-integrity consistently create evidence of their corruption.

The state won't prosecute them ( big herds ONLY respect big herds, & corporations are herds, which is why when accountability threatens, they simply "dissipate", and .. "nobody is responsible!" .. same as herds ), so activist-groups are going to have to do it.

Totally different framing.

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These dudes seriously seem to have zero clue about being a human being.

AI companies who can't find anyone to buy their product, swear their employees would rather have their product in exchange for labor rather than money...

Which could easily be used to buy the product no one outside the company is buying.

This is just a way to juice metrics and claim this "compensation" as sales on the books.

And I'm almost positive the "per user growth" they're talking about is just how brain rot addicts will use chatbots for everything once their brain atrophies from not using it. But just by mentioning that they had to admit that overall use wasn't a metric they wanted to talk about.

It's like how a small percentage of drinkers (the alcoholics) buy the vast amount of alcohol. Less people drinking is bad for the company, and a few alcoholics can't sustain the company without being replaced by new addicts.

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Also, isn't this literally a plot point from Silicon Valley?

Like, their desperation move to get funding at some point was handing out compute tokens, but the only people who wanted to buy it was their competitors because non of the companies had customers?

Ha. Succumbing to Ads, selling their AI super-weapon to the most insanely violent US Fascist regime, and now trying to use compute as payment for staff and whatnot. They are really doing great :-)

I can't wait for the lazy/scammy shareholders to lose all their stolen value..

Awesome! Now they can lose money and get wrong answers at the same time!

Salary is 64GB of virtual ram

Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: Slavery

FIFY

Can't they just pay me in NFTs?

Hey you know what I could use to buy compute or literally anything else

How about compensation for making all hardware so expensive? How about compensation to artists for violating their work to train your precious models? How about compensation for the CO2 that they are spewing into to atmosphere?

They are going full panic mode now. The crash has already begun.

It’s like a grift card, only redeemable by the employer with your time, without the card.

Well, this is a fresh kind of hell...

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Getting high on their own supply again I see.

This reminds me of workers being paid in vodka during the USSR era. 😬

I wonder if it's a coincidence.