AI inference emerges as a critical factor in tech compensation, impacting engineer productivity and Silicon Valley hiring dynamics.
  • entropiclyclaude@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    6 days

    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.

  • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6 days

    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?

  • MIDItheKID@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 days

    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.

  • PushButton@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 days

    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.

    • evol@lemmy.todayEnglish
      5 days

      They are talking about like internal quotas I believe? Like my friends company is limited to 1000 in spend per month while I have no cap and will blow through 2k in a week if I’m working long hours.

  • bebabalula@feddit.dkEnglish
    5 days

    Company that sells random collections of words: People are increasingly asking for random collections of words instead of money!

  • ChadGPT2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 days

    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.

    • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.orgEnglish
      7 days

      Certainly not. This one seems to be the source article. And you know the problem with those archive paywall busting side. They are doing a DDOS on other sites and are serving malware. So I won’t link them. The article in question doesn’t have a paywall for me, so maybe clean your cookies and cache or install some paywall busting plugins. Some paywalls are also time based, so they start after a certain amount of days, after a certain amount of visits, and are therefore hard to predict. So no there’s no way to link another article.

  • Danarchy@lemmy.nzEnglish
    6 days

    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

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    7 days

    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.

    • VibeSurgeon@piefed.socialEnglish
      5 days

      It’s a really dumb way to frame what the OpenAI people actually said on this - they are saying that the people applying to them want to know how many tokens they can use as a tool to accomplish the job they are applying for. There’s a fundamental difference to compensation here to compensation, where tokens as compensation would be how many tokens the people applying for the job would be able to utilize for their own purposes, whatever they may be.

      To illustrate - I would probably be reluctant to work for a company which would not be willing to spend the amount of money that would get me a more or less top of the line computer with which to perform my job. Not because I consider my company-provided development machine as a part of my compensation - it is merely a tool I use for my job.

      The people applying for these jobs are the kinds of people who think that burning an exorbitant amount of tokens will make them quite significantly more productive, so the metaphor of having the best tools available to accomplish the task at hand extends here, in accordance with their belief system.

      There’s then the quote from the VC ghouls, but I don’t think anyone could accuse them of being competent to any significant degree, so their quotes are most appropriately used as toilet paper.

  • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7 days

    “Sorry, my mortgage servicer doesn’t accept AI slop as payment, so I’ll just take the money”

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7 days

    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.

    • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zipEnglish
      7 days

      Sort of. It was more of a crypto token and the competitor was buying them all up so they could control over 50% and effectively break Pied Piper’s system.