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Jensen Huang says Nvidia engineers should use AI tokens worth half their annual salary every year to be fully productive (www.tomshardware.com)
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You're not productive if you don't use a lot of AI, says guy who makes all of his money selling AI hardware

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[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 48 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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

And CAD designers didn't have to pay half of their salary to use the CAD tools the company wanted them to use. How did that guy get to be in charge ?

[-] jagermo@feddit.org 30 points 4 days 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

[-] artifex@piefed.social 17 points 4 days 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".

[-] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago

Which is still utterly absurd, because it implies that a harder working dev would be spending more time chatting to a bot.

[-] artifex@piefed.social 11 points 4 days 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

[-] worhui@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

This is clearly a situation where you are expected to spend 100% of a budget to keep your job.

[-] krisevol@lemmus.org 6 points 4 days ago

Your didn't read the article did you?

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

[-] worhui@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

That is not at all what the article says. It’s way more self serving than that.

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