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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)
submitted 5 hours ago by artifex@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] artifex@piefed.social 10 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

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". Which is better, but only just.

[–] TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 4 points 2 hours ago

I think he's saying slaves should owe their soul to the company store.

Don't give this sack of shite the benefit of doubt.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 20 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

To refine that even further, he doesn't appear to imply that the dev isn't WORKING hard enough, only that they're not being OPTIMALLY PRODUCTIVE.

What he's trying to do, really is float and normalize the concept of baking tokens into HR math in terms of a "golden ratio"... which happens to be 2:1.

So, when a company goes all in on ai, and they cut thier workforce in half, they'll need to add in 50% for tokens. 50% of the original staff, at a new 150% cost, puts the company at 75% pre ai workforce cost. This is the "guidelines" they're trying to normalize.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

It's funny how his calculation factors in the completely immaterial price of tokens variable instead the material one which is the number of tokens or better yet the productivity gain per token.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago

He didn't explicitly say it, but the language in use gels with the ones that have