artifex20h 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 threadFeyd20h ago

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

Show threadWanderingThoughts
Just a few days ago they were indeed talking about giving tokens as bonus.
Are AI tokens the new signing bonus or just a cost of doing business? | TechCrunch

Maybe tokens really will become the fourth pillar of engineering compensation. But engineers might want to hold the line before embracing this as a straightforward win.

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Mar 23 at 7:38pmWeb
Show threadCompactFlax18h ago
Is company chit still illegal if it’s a bonus?
Show threadCuddles McBubblefun15h ago

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?