You’re not productive if you don’t use a lot of AI, says guy who makes all of his money selling AI hardware
It’s moments like these that make me think about the state of the world and my part in it. I may just be a random loser on the Internet, but I do know a lot more shit that some of the biggest multi-quad-spillion-dollar CEOs, apparently.
For example, it’s an old fact that tech CEOs know jack shit about measuring productivity, even when they’re obsessed with it. Yeah. One more example.
The beauty is when those companies run out of human training data and start training on AI slop, just to generate even more AI slop.
This is probably already happening though.
It is, intentionally. Some of the training data is synthetic
I thought AI would save us money? If it adds 50% onto the cost of a salary and bynall studies does not improve productivity output, then it’s not great.
Oh, he left out their plan to fire half of them and drive wages down by a third.
This may sound weird, but I think anecdotal evidence might be more informative than the productivity stats for now, until the industry settles on a new equilibrium.
Some engineers are more productive with AI, and some (maybe even most, still) are less productive. People are still putting in the effort to learn how to use it more effectively/productively (there is a learning curve), and some of the less productive are getting laid off.
It sucks, but that’s just how it is now.
Also, AI tooling is still evolving very rapidly. A lot of information and stats are only valid for maybe a few months.
It’s amazing they can just make these claims without literally any evidence and no major “media” organization asks for it. They are just propaganda for these companies.
Luigi knows the solution for this.
The AI bubble went from a trillion dollar worth of circlejerk investments, to a self-sucking circlejerk trillion dollar ponzi scheme. Jensen Huang is right the moment an Invidia’s employee stop sucking their own dick or stop jerking off their coworkers and bosses simultaneously, the whole economy collapse.
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
Edit
It seems that the Nvidia CEO isn’t the only one investing in AI tokens for his employees to freely use.
They also really want to talk about tokens like they’re some kind of currency
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?
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.
Huh, yeah. 50% cost in tokens could be 1 very expensive token or 1 million tokens. Who knows?
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.
A straight white one
He didn’t explicitly say it, but the language in use gels with the ones that have
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…
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 proof of work cryptocurrency. But at least this time the compute is aiming at producing something useful, not the lowest hash value.
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?
They also really want to talk about tokens like they’re some kind of currency
i think it is better than pizza fridays for them, because they probably can’t barter pizza for free.
Sure I don’t get any retirement or healthcare benefits, but look at all the company scrip I get for the sloppy autocomplete that is stealing all my groundwater no matter how many times someone says „closed loop cooling“.
Jesus that’s a lot of tokens.
Even if I was trying to do everything in my power to make burn tokens for real work I’d be hard fucking pressed to burn more than a couple thousand a month and that’s just being wasteful.
you just need to use more context injection and more agents working in parallel on git worktrees or whatever and then get really depressed because you own an absolute fuckload of code now and you are less familiar with it
I remember back when Nvidias PR team used to push this humble rags to riches story about Jensen back in the day, I guess even they would have a tough time doing that now that he’s gone mask off
Let me translate this for you, “My bonus depends on you showing our massive investment wasn’t a waste so I’m holding your jobs hostage until you make up busy work to pretend it was worthwhile.”
CEO suggests raising employee costs by fifty percent and is immediately fired.
Sorry, we don’t live in a sane world anymore.
Jensen Huang should suck my dick.
Only if he has the tokens to do so.
I think that’s far too low tbh
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.
So I found it kind of sucks to have those daily life tasks removed. I worked in a place early in my career that had on site catered food, on site laundry, on site massage, shopping services (before Amazon prime) and lodging for excessive overtime .
If it’s just leaving you more opportunity to work it sucks. I can’t be the only one who enjoys taking care of the daily life tasks Lê cleaning, shopping and cooking for myself. It’s what personalizes your life. When you do it for yourself, you decide what you eat and what you wear.
It seems cool but it’s offered so you never stop working and your life is never really your own.
I think the issue is that those things were tied to your job, not to some external source that just gives you free time to fuck around.
Yes.
Wow, that doesn’t sound like a pyramid scheme at all. At all.
