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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1 hourManagers should send 100 emails per day to be fully productive
- 6 minutes
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.
- halfapage@lemmy.worldEnglish1 hour
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?
- BlackLaZoR@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
Can’t wait to to see AI that designs chips driving Nvidia out of business
- Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish2 hours
They’re allegedly already vibe coding drivers so it’s bound to happen eventually
- 23 minutes
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.
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?
- Feyd@programming.devEnglish5 hours
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
- fartographer@lemmy.worldEnglish1 hour
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…
- givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
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 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.
- TwodogsFighting@lemdro.idEnglish2 hours
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.
- Windex007@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
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.
- Feyd@programming.devEnglish3 hours
He didn’t explicitly say it, but the language in use gels with the ones that have
- WanderingThoughts@europe.pubEnglish3 hours
Just a few days ago they were indeed talking about giving tokens as bonus.
- 10 minutes
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?
- 14th_cylon@lemmy.zipEnglish4 hours
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.
- Ludicrous0251@piefed.zipEnglish3 hours
“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.”
- 3 hours
The secret is he’s always been low, nvidia has intermittently pulled tons of shady shit basically ever since the 3dfx days
- Goferking0@ttrpg.networkEnglish3 hours
Idk when he was every regarded highly by Nvidia users/consumers. Only by corporate board and investors
- teslasdisciple@lemmy.caEnglish3 hours
This is even dumber than tracking how many lines of code each dev commits.
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.orgEnglish4 hours
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”.
- thebestaquaman@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
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
- krisevol@lemmus.orgEnglish4 hours
Your didn’t read the article did you?
Jenson gives then free tokens just in case you don’t want to read.
- 4 hours
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.
- REDACTED@infosec.pubEnglish4 hours
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?
- scytale@piefed.zipEnglish4 hours
I’m gonna take a guess that a big portion of it is infrastructure-as-code, the operations side and not product development itself. I work in the operations side of things and we never touch the product at all, but we deal with a lot of code due to how backend infrastructure is built and maintained now, especially if you’re in the cloud.
- givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
so what can they realistically even use it for so much?
Burn money on AI tokens so it looks like AI could be profitable some day so people keep investing in AI companies that can then buy Nvidia chips…
You’re thinking of it like “how can AI make a better product”
They’re looking at it as “how can we sell more chips”
Two very different questions with very different answers.
It’s a house of cards and Nvidia can’t afford to acknowledge no one wants AI or knows how to make it profitable.
Guess code review and troubleshooting. Not really sure, I have only really used it for code templates and ideas for troubleshooting to look into.
The most use I found is rewriting documents in a specific way. But only after I write it first. Then go back and forth. Just to make tone consistent.
- frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish4 hours
There’s plenty of driver code available. All of Linux and BSD, plus whatever internal stuff they have. Optimization is pretty generic.
Chip design maybe not, but I imagine you can train an AI on the principles and generate a bunch of candidates, then benchmark them in simulation.
- 4 hours
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
- 4 hours
I’d be amazed if they internally do not have objectives to implement the kool aid.
But yeah, of course it’s propaganda. If this bite lands in the right ear of an exec, they can implement this as a metric in their review process.
- Evilschnuff@feddit.orgEnglish4 hours
Kinda similar to musks LOC requirement. But at least with NVIDIA this idea directly correlates with more business if it spreads beyond the company
- homes@piefed.worldEnglish4 hours
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.
