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Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation (www.businessinsider.com)
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[-] vane@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

With Levels.fyi pegging the 75th percentile software engineer salary at $375,000, Tunguz estimates that adding $100,000 in annual inference costs brings the fully loaded cost to $475,000 — meaning just over 20% of the compensation cost could come from AI usage in the future.

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Tunguz has been building AI tools and models into his daily workflow and is automating 31 tasks a day at a cost of about $12,000 a year in inference.

This article is insane and proves me more that AI is product for rich people. Most of developers won't see $100k per year paycheck in their lifetime.

[-] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 2 points 6 months ago

I really, really would like to see what tasks he is automating.

[-] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 2 points 6 months ago

You can look on n8n what is successfull. It give some idea

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This article is insane and proves me more that AI is product for rich people. Most of developers won’t see $100k per year paycheck in their lifetime.

These days an annual salary of $100k is at the very low end for most IT jobs in the USA (beyond the junior level). Even in my MCOL area $125k-$200k is more common.

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