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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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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 29 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (4 children)

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 ?

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 15 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] artifex@piefed.social 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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".

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 13 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] artifex@piefed.social 7 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] krisevol@lemmus.org 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Your didn't read the article did you?

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

[–] melfie@lemy.lol 2 points 19 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.