▲ 244 ▼ AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money (pivot-to-ai.com) submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by dgerard@awful.systems [M] to c/techtakes@awful.systems 36 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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 time: 6 min 57 sec
[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 56 points 6 months ago (2 children) Hopefully they run out of cash flow asap. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] froztbyte@awful.systems 15 points 6 months ago (1 child) as I said elsewhere: I suspect this is happening because cash is becoming tighter permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 15 points 6 months ago (1 child) as I said elsewhere: I suspect this is happening because cash is becoming tighter permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months 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. permalink fedilink source parent