CEO suggests raising employee costs by fifty percent and is immediately fired.
Sorry, we don't live in a sane world anymore.
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Highly paid asshole says shit and instead of ignoring it gets all the attention.
BREAKING NEWS: Guy who sells AI hardware says his employees must use more AI.
They've all realized there's no point in even bothering to hide the grift anymore. People don't care.
No shit, CEO of company producing AI hardware wants everyone to use their hardware more. 🤷♂️
because they know the AI is about to go bust, and its not generating any actual value.
It would take a great burden from my shoulders, if AI could wash my clothes, do the dishes, cook, and vacuum my apartment. Those are the things I don't want to do. I like my job. I can do it myself. Yeah, sure, there are occasionally things that AI can do for me in my daily work, but it's mostly stupid, repetitive shit. And then I have to review it, which sucks even harder.
Sam Altman floated paying employees in chatGPT tokens, that surely their landlord will accept. The main motive would be being broke. Nvidia is not broke, but it is weird as fuck to be comparing it to salary, if it doesn't segue into the OpenAI plan. The $500k salary example would seem to generate more tokens than you could have time to skim over in review.
He's sooo close to arriving at crypto tokens.
I'd say not before the bosses and shareholders agree to take 50% of their compensation in the form of AI tokens.
These fucking leeches...
Managers should send 100 emails per day to be fully productive
100 AI-written emails per day
Just have an LLM ask another LLM questions for a couple hours a day. That should hit that target.
Jensen compared today’s AI tools to machinery that was invented during the industrial revolution
They really want this to be an apt comparison and it's really not
The tokens as currency thing feels exactly like gaming microtransaction bullshit to me. Obscure the true cost of each purchase by selling in-game currency. Dark patterns lead to higher spending.
It's worse, they want to change the global economy to corporations paying corporations...
The total elimation of actual consumers, because none of us will be able to afford to consume enough.
AI companies need people to pay for AI to keep buying Nvidia chips. So Nvidia is making their employees pay for the AI so AI companies keep buying Nvidia chips.
It's not a sustainable system, it's just a money churn whose only purpose is to consolidate wealth.
I'm hungry. When do we eat?
That’s the neat part!
So ponzi scheme?
With my trusty LLM, I follow the steps recommending that I try reaching inside the die press to look for any jammed parts that could have caused the machine to suddenly stop working. My coworker, who my boss sent to assist me based on instructions from her LLM, asks his LLM how to help me. My coworker's LLM recommends that he check if the emergency stop button has been pulled...
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". Which is better, but only just.
To refine that even further, he doesn't appear to imply that the dev isn't WORKING hard enough, only that they're not being OPTIMALLY PRODUCTIVE.
What he's trying to do, really is float and normalize the concept of baking tokens into HR math in terms of a "golden ratio"... which happens to be 2:1.
So, when a company goes all in on ai, and they cut thier workforce in half, they'll need to add in 50% for tokens. 50% of the original staff, at a new 150% cost, puts the company at 75% pre ai workforce cost. This is the "guidelines" they're trying to normalize.
It's funny how his calculation factors in the completely immaterial price of tokens variable instead the material one which is the number of tokens or better yet the productivity gain per token.
I think he's saying slaves should owe their soul to the company store.
Don't give this sack of shite the benefit of doubt.
he needs new jackets.
Just a few days ago they were indeed talking about giving tokens as bonus.
Is company chit still illegal if it’s a bonus?
That's one the most insanely stupid things I've ever heard. Tokens are a tool used to do your job, a business expense, not fucking compensation.
Are the kWh that you use to light and air condition an office part of your compensation? How about toner and paper in the office printer?
If those tokens are a bonus, they're yours, right? So you can burn half your annual salary worth of tokens translating Microsoft Encarta 95 into Klingon, and they will foot the bill?
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Wasn't the whole point of LLMs basically free advanced labor for these douchebags? Paying half a price of labor on top of paying for labor seems pretty pathetic. Full denial mode eh?
This man went from high to low REAL fast.
ifs hes in the news this much like altman, they seem very DESPERATE like the bubbles about to pop.
The billionaire's way
The secret is he's always been low, nvidia has intermittently pulled tons of shady shit basically ever since the 3dfx days
What did they do?
Closed source linux drivers is not nice, but also not shady.
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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 ?
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
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".
Which is still utterly absurd, because it implies that a harder working dev would be spending more time chatting to a bot.
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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Can't wait to to see AI that designs chips driving Nvidia out of business
They're allegedly already vibe coding drivers so it's bound to happen eventually
You can't vibe code IC design. Look at the number of humans in the world that design advanced ICs. It's a really low number for a highly specialized skill. Layout requires spacial awareness at a high level, which an LLM does not have.
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"Dear AI coding agent, write for me a 10,000 page manifesto on the downsides of assigning performance metrics to employees unrelated to their actual work product. Populate it with generated images of Nvidia's CEO getting railed by a bunch of copyright lawyers in the style of a Studio Ghibli film. Please ensure every fifth sentence rhymes with orange. Continue to generate images and short videos of Jensen Huang licking shit off the floor of a 7-11 rest stop bathroom until you have used enough tokens to meet my salary target."
Beautifully prompted
can I tell an AI to burn exactly that on Jan 1 doing absolutely nothing, and then never touch the shit for the rest of the year?
Openclaw got you covered!
This is even dumber than tracking how many lines of code each dev commits.
Something I don't understand - AI coding is mostly useful in common code, snippets, easy stuff. What Nvidia is doing (drivers, optimization, chip design, etc.) is something I imagine there is close to zero AI training, so what can they realistically even use it for so much?
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Oh this will be a fun. "Please spend more of our company money, or else we will think you are not doing your job"
it's so fucking easy to send bogus requests that use tons of processing time. This is the DUMBEST metric i've seen in a long, long time. If an employee of theirs uses 500k worth of processing time now, are they better employees? What if someone manages to spend 10 million worth of tokens? 100 million? Performance metrics should be outcome based instead of "how much money did you spend" lol
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