John Gordon š·This whole thing seems like a way to hide the expense of these tools... The AI tokens are just a tool (or at least the cost of using a tool). I was going to suggest that as such it shouldn't be part of a signing bonus, but then I remembered we went through a phase where companies offered new laptops as a part of signing (another tool they would need to do the job they were being hired for).
Mr Intergalactic Keyboard@Bluedonkey ofc the CEO is going to talk about compensating using tokens primarily spent on using hardware his company sells. This perspective ignores Apple Silicon and the substantially more cost competitive (and energy efficient) option of running coding LLMs on local hardware. This isnt even that far off. Large Qwen models run at acceptable token rates on m4 chips. Need agents? get a bank of Apple Studio machines. If some company offered me tokens for comp I would laugh and renegotiate or seek alternative employment. Its like offering free coffee as part of the comp.
@mrintergalactickeyboard Yup, 100% agree. Iām running Qwen3.5 on local hardware and getting totally acceptable results for most tasks. Even from the 9b variant. No need to spend $250K on tokens for cloud services.