call me back when my landlord decides AI tokens are acceptable for rent

You load 16 gigs, and what do you get? Sudo apt update && apt upgrade, Admin dont you call on me, cause I can’t compute, I owe my soul to the LLM.

Any employee willing to be paid by token or crypto gets what they deserve. The only reason these companies can get away with this crap is because the proletariat are allowing it.

You need a job, and you want it to be exciting; that’s understandable. Maybe you’re trying to break into the industry. Yes, it’s tough. People will tell you that you’ve got to pay your dues or some other “toe the line” bullshit.

People need to realize that companies are not friends, they are a means to an end. And you are their means to an end. They will use you, just like you will use them. If they want you to work pong hours for as little pay as they can get away with, walk away. There are other jobs out there. They may not be glamorous, but they are out there.

If only WorldCom had thought of paying employees in long distance minutes (they got for free at work), they’d still be around today, under theory that employees would still have worked there.

They’re going to have these giant data centers, and they will have residences next door, and a small little town will grow up around it, and the only money allowed will be company scrip, and these people will be trapped, essentially slaves.

This idea was most recently floated by Thibault Sottiaux at OpenAI: [Twitter, archive]

I am increasingly asked during candidate interviews how much dedicated inference compute they will have to build with Codex.

Aren’t these candidates asking about token budgets for doing their job? This has nothing to do with compensation…