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AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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I owe my SOUL․md to the company store

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLERkM2TJbw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260312-ai-companies-try-to-pay-staff-in-ai-tokens-not-money - podcast

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[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 56 points 1 month ago

Hopefully they run out of cash flow asap.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 15 points 1 month ago

as I said elsewhere: I suspect this is happening because cash is becoming tighter

[-] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

It really looks like this is getting to the end. Somewhat paradoxically, I am on the edge on the issue, nearly being forced to join the LLM hype. I think this is the indicator.

Gotta see what remains after bubble pops.

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