“We can’t sell it so we’re giving it to you for free” does not sound to me like “compensation”.

[gnomon@mastodon.social]

@mhoye

> "I am increasingly asked during candidate interviews how much dedicated inference compute they will have to build with Codex," Thibault Sottiaux, engineering lead at OpenAI's Codex, the startup's AI coding service, wrote on X recently.

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[mhoye@cosocial.ca]

@gnomon Yeah.

@bsmedberg has given me some perplexed, what-are-you-saying looks over the years but I think that if I'd ever propose using Firefox for free as a salary perk his eyebrows would have left his head.

[lizardbill@hachyderm.io]

@mhoye Oh, it's a shitcoin now. I'm not sure why I didn't see that coming.

[gabrielesvelto@mas.to]

@mhoye this is from the same people that wanted to pay employees with crypto and NTFs, right?

[fraggle@social.coop]

@mhoye if Starbucks tried to pay its employees with Starbucks gift cards they'd be laughed at. AI companies do the same thing and it's for some reason considered an innovative new compensation model

[alessandro@mstdn.ca]

@gnomon @mhoye

"He added that usage per user is growing much faster than overall user growth, a sign that AI compute is becoming even scarcer and more valuable."

That's odd, to me it looks like a sign of a saturated market with low adoption...

[jimfl@hachyderm.io]

@mhoye Slop Options

[mayintoronto@beige.party]

@mhoye Wtf. These are just tools for their day jobs, not compensation.

[mhoye@cosocial.ca]

@mayintoronto Great news, our company won't be charging you when you use the washroom in the office anymore, you can use the washrooms for free, we're calling it our Whole Body Compensation Strategy.

You'll still need to badge in to the washroom though, we aren't turning that off.

[plumbert@thecanadian.social]

@mhoye I mean.... in the 1960s my father worked for the British National Coal Board and part of his compensation was coal we used to heat our house.

Can AI workers somehow burn compute tokens to keep warm in winter?

[mhoye@cosocial.ca]

@Plumbert They are, all the time, with much the same effect.

[leanlearnlead@mstdn.ca]

@mhoye @mayintoronto we also have low low rents for employees that sleep at their desk after a long and late day of coding.

By paying you in compute tokens, you can spend those in our company cafeteria. 10000 tokens for a bottle of water - no ironic comments please.

If we catch you coding by hand, that's a 10000 token fine.

Thank you for working in our 1800's mining town. That hammer we gave you wore out, you can buy a new one for 10000 tokens.

If you're caught exchanging tokens for hard currency you will be fined 100000 tokens.

[mhoye@cosocial.ca]

@leanlearnlead @mayintoronto

You burn 6M tokens, and what do you get / 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 anthropic and claude

[celeduc@mastodon.social]

@mhoye @mayintoronto but we spent years implementing pay-per-plop!

[mhoye@cosocial.ca]

@celeduc @mayintoronto Adding floaters to their sunk cost fallacy, I bet somebody got a bonus for that.

[jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io]

@mhoye @leanlearnlead @mayintoronto
ty for this, I will now always have to stop myself from pronouncing it "clode"

[wall_e@ioc.exchange]

@mhoye the fuck?? They want to pay their engineers in inference tokens now? ‍‍