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

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[โ€“] Carol2852@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No shit, CEO of company producing AI hardware wants everyone to use their hardware more. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

because they know the AI is about to go bust, and its not generating any actual value.

[โ€“] Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago

Wow, that doesn't sound like a pyramid scheme at all. At all.

[โ€“] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jensen Huang should suck my dick.

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[โ€“] lime@feddit.nu 9 points 1 week ago

you first, mr huang

[โ€“] homes@piefed.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If these AI engineers were fully committed to AI, then they would be happy to be paid in tokens. The fact that they still demand to be paid in human money proves that they are just philistines and sycophants.

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[โ€“] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

What a fucking clown

[โ€“] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tech people are all circle jerking dipshits

[โ€“] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mostly corporate tech people, or really suits in general.

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I want him to explain where the half salary number comes from, specifically and in detail backed up with analysis from real life data. Also I will still bust out paper and pen for graphs, layouts and design ideas because that's how I figure out what works and what really doesn't work before I waste a bunch of time with a PC. Incidentally I use zero AI in my job, no matter how much they want us to.

[โ€“] goatinspace@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago
[โ€“] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Would Nvidia lose a bunch of money if the ai bubble collapsed? Could that be why he is saying absurd things like this? I bet if any employee did drop that much on ai they would be in trouble.

[โ€“] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

"And to not get mysteriously laid off"

[โ€“] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean... if you take into account fair price of utilities (water and electric) and skyrocketing costs of RAM... I don't fully disagree.

Ballparking, but 50% of an engineer's job being "boilerplate" and "charlie work" sounds reasonable to me. Maybe even 75%. That IS what generative AI is really good at. It is the kind of work that you can have a particularly ambitious student intern do.

What makes a good engineer is the ability to verify that work. In software this is "code review". And the other aspect is actual innovation. Solving particularly complex problems or breaking a problem down into manageable and verifiable tasks.

And... guess how you maintain your skills to be able to do that? That's right. Charlie Work.

Which is the problem. Managers (and wannabe managers) just see short term gains. So they want EVERYTHING to be done with "AI" because they want to bulk fire people and reduce operating costs. And they don't at all care that they are causing a massive brain drain because that is next quarter's problem.

But yeah. Use generative AI to accelerate your workflow. But also understand when it is very much worth taking your time. Either to keep those skills fresh or just because you can do it in a "fun" way. And if you feel that ALL of your workload can be done by chatgpt... maybe think about how much cheaper a claude subscription is compared to your salary and benefits.

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