wmatNvidia's Huang pitches AI tokens on top of salary
Huang is absolutely losing the plot, salary is compensation for work done, for time spent away from other things in life, and to sustain your life outside of work.
Tokens as "compensation" falls into the not-even-wrong bucket, tokens are business expenses as input for work.
Many of Nvidia's employees probably use token outside of work. Just like they just cars, heath insurance, and other benefits that many companies provide on top of salary.
If a company can provide a service or product to employees cheaper than the market can, then it makes sense to provide it as a perk.
This is some bad reporting, IMO.
Here’s the quote
“ “I’m going to give them probably half of that on top of [their base pay] as tokens ... because every engineer that has access to tokens will be more productive.” “
It’s less of him saying it’s a bonus or a perk and more him saying expect to spend that much more on top of base salary to get enormous productivity boosts.
Now, I could see availability of these tools as an incentive to joining a place, which is no different than joining an engineering team because the use nice MacBooks.
that's weird cause if i am paid in tokens, how do i use those tokens on my employer's workflows?
shouldnt the tokens belong to the employer?
i understand the concept of an engineering having tools they own but if they're gonna shove tokens-as-utility down our throats, no boss, i'm not hooking you into my well water.