artifex4d ago

Jensen Huang says Nvidia engineers should use AI tokens worth half their annual salary every year to be fully productive

You’re not productive if you don’t use a lot of AI, says guy who makes all of his money selling AI hardware

Jensen Huang says Nvidia engineers should use AI tokens worth half their annual salary every year to be fully productive — compares not using AI to using paper and pencil for designing chips

You're not productive if you don't use a lot of AI.

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Show threadTheReturnOfPEB

Huang wants employees to pay half of their salary back to the company ? There is no escaping the company store, eh ?

CAD designers didn’t have to pay half of their salary to use the CAD tools the company wanted them to use.

Mar 23 at 5:51pmWeb
Show threadkrisevol4d ago

Your didn’t read the article did you?

Jenson gives then free tokens just in case you don’t want to read.

Show threada_non_monotonic_function4d ago
Fuck reading.
Show threadjagermo4d ago

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

Show threadmelfie4d ago

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.

Show threadartifex4d ago
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”.
Show threadthebestaquaman4d ago
Which is still utterly absurd, because it implies that a harder working dev would be spending more time chatting to a bot.
Show threadartifex4d ago
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
Show threadworhui3d ago
This is clearly a situation where you are expected to spend 100% of a budget to keep your job.
Show threadworhui3d ago
That is not at all what the article says. It’s way more self serving than that.