You’re not productive if you don’t use a lot of AI, says guy who makes all of his money selling AI hardware

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    7 hours ago

    Huang wants employees to pay half of their salary back to the company ? There is no escaping the company store, eh ?

    And CAD designers didn’t have to pay half of their salary to use the CAD tools the company wanted them to use. How did that guy get to be in charge ?

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      You code 16 lines, what do you get?

      Another day older and deeper in debt

      St. Peter, don’t you call me 'cause I can′t go

      I owe my soul to the company store

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      6 hours ago

      I didn’t read it that way. I think he’s saying “bosses: if you’re paying a $100k salary to a dev and not also paying $50k for tokens, your dev isn’t working hard enough”.

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        Which is still utterly absurd, because it implies that a harder working dev would be spending more time chatting to a bot.

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          oh absolutely, but generating tokens is how nvidia gets paid, and companies are terrified of being left behind if they’re not 100% onboard with LLM workflows

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      7 hours ago

      Your didn’t read the article did you?

      Jenson gives then free tokens just in case you don’t want to read.

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      7 hours ago

      It seems that the Nvidia CEO isn’t the only one investing in AI tokens for his employees to freely use

      AFAIK, Nvidia employees aren’t paying for the tokens they use out of their own pockets, although it’s certainly beneficial to Nvidia in multiple ways if their own employees are making heavy use of AI.