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

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.

God this timeline is so fucking dumb

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

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?

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

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.

Edit:

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?

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."

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.

Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: Slavery

FIFY

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.

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

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

So let me get this straight. Companies were like "instead of paying one senior dev 300k and 5 junior devs 150k, we can get rid of all the junior devs and give the senior dev AI to do all of the legwork thus saving us 750k."

And then they found out that AI costs money. So instead of ponying up the 100k in tokens for the senior dev to to their job, they are saying "Hey senior dev, we are taking away your bonus and replacing it with tokens! You can take it or be out of a job, because we refuse to keep anybody on board who doesn't use AI to replace 5 junior devs"

So these cheap fucks saved 750k, and are upset with the fact that they might only save 650k?

While also destroying the planet to generate shitty code.

I fucking hate this time line.

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

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?

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

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.

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?

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

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

Now, some tech job candidates have begun asking about what AI compute budget they will have access to if they decide to join. "I am increasingly asked during candidate interviews how much dedicated inference compute they will have to build with Codex," Thibault Sottiaux, engineering lead at OpenAI's Codex, the startup's AI coding service, wrote on X recently.

Big fucking bullshit. No one ever ask for "AI compute budget", people wants money. Not your coffee, not your foosball game, money.

Guess what you can buy with money? Yeah, that compute time, if desired.

What a fucking load of bullshit.

Salary is 64GB of virtual ram

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.

Oh my god Iran. Just send the drones already

Can't they just pay me in NFTs?

Hey. AI. Go to the store and buy me food.

Hmmm. Doesn’t work.

What a bunch of fucking idiots.

Getting high on their own supply again I see.

16 tons and what do you get?

But that's just crypto again, isn't it? They tried the same bullshit.

The chief marketing officer for AI, Bill Ofgoods, thinks this is a great idea and the CFO, Peg Inapoke, agrees. Brooklyn Bridge was unavailable for comment

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

I wonder if it's a coincidence.

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.