At least some times Rohan gets it right, and they get it more right over time.
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Besides do you have any idea how many Rohan(s) we can afford at $150,000/month?
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Total cost of employment is something like 140-160% of salary for a software dev. So my super handwavy half pulled out of my ass math puts it closer to 20 jr. engineers.
In France it's more like 200%. minimum. Which is why our salaries are so shit when compared with US ones.
But the new trend is hiring interns which are much cheaper, work twice as hard, and come with tax deductions.
US salaries in general are inflated and not entirely indicative of actual spending power. They have a lot more ancillary costs like healthcare and other insurances, not to mention a significant lack of public transport means most people also need to pay for a car and gas and whatnot.
Add to that the fact that they get fuck all for vacation time meaning if they want time off, it costs their salary for the missed days. I think when you weigh it all out, it balances pretty evenly, if not somewhat in France's favour.
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I meeeean yeah, but also there are just some people who don't work out
I do prefer that over bots on everything tho. It's getting rather exhausting
Literally was in a presentation at work the other day where they said someone used 2 million tokens and the next person used 1 million and they were so excited by it.
I didn't get it. I asked went 2 million was better than 1 million. The VP basically said it's not, just costs us more money.
So why the hell is the presentation acting like it's a fucking victory?
Because they believe that AI will replace payroll, which is generally a businesses highest expense. The more AI usage, the more likely they can eliminate jobs and give themselves bonuses.
They are excited the way a farmer is excited when his pigs are gorging themselves on grain and getting really, really fat. The farmer is glad to pay for grain because its much cheaper than the money he makes from selling them for meat.
They are giddy because its almost time for payday.
I wonder at what point government will tax AI use by companies similarly to payroll taxes and incomes taxes.
If they pay an AI company $150,000 a month to replace $50,000 in salaries, the government then loses all that income tax from the previous employees as well as the payroll tax on $600k a year.
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payroll, which is generally a businesses highest expense
This is something that changed in the industry; it was a investment back then.
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Because AI use is up! The FUTURE!
Because it's a proxy metric for adoption. Currently you generally want your engineers to be using it as much as you can afford to so that they all learn and improve and adapt existing processes etc
Also, I've been noticing more and more APIs are adopting a policy where they get rid of any unused credits that you've paid for at the end of the month, creating a 'use it or lose it' FOMO mentality.
All very normal and sane.
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Engineers under such incentives should ask AI how to most easily and speedily consume as many credits as possible, I bet it knows a great way
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Which is a stupid mindset.
"Go forth and burn tokens and your performance will be measured on that"
Looks like I'm going to make a for to ask for a for every word in /usr/share/dict/words. Look at all the tokens I burned.
It doesn't reflect upon business value, performance, or education.
It's even worse than the disastrous lines of code metric.
Their problem is they have no idea what to expect, so to signal affinity to hype, they just measure tokens.
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Is the face AI morphed or something? It looks uncanny valley weird.
Jim halpert looksmaxxing in 2026
Dasgustin
I don't think it registered until I read your comment. Maybe compression artifacts or something? Either way, I don't like it.
Definitely was. Changed has lips, nose, even his hair.
https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/db800eba-6e5e-4bd5-8950-6a5e2c8ab73a.png
I expected the Mr. Bean Photoshop version 😂
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Dude my nephew was telling me this an AI company galytix is literally running on Indian grads and claiming to be ai what a scam
AI: Actually Indians
I really wonder to what degree “Self Driving Vehicles” are being completely or partially supervised and controlled by an overseas desk worker.
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And Rohan will answer!
We should unionize and eat the useless managers.
Rohan should demand at least double that to return
I'm unclear what Rohan is in reference to. Can I get an explainer on that element?
Rohan is the junior data scientist they rehired cause it’s cheaper than AI.
Arise, arise, riders of Rohan! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered! A sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride to Gondor! Ride for ruin, and the world’s ending! DEATH!!
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Well, you know, horses, grasslands, Wormtongue - Rohan!
rohan is a common indian name
See also Mohinder, Rashid and Vishal.
Is this AI jim?
They’re all moving to tokens based billing to stop the bleeding. The markets aren’t as willing to let them burn infinite cash on operating expenses anymore. A lot of the private investors see the writing on the walls, that these AI companies are not worth anywhere near the valuations, and propping them up to ensure further datacenter build out to keep Nvidia shares high is costing more than it’s worth.
A lot of the model providers are lining up for ipos to cash out their initial investors and dump the responsibility of the mess on the public markets. They have to jack their prices to pretty up their books if they want to cash out with an IPO though. The unlimited access for a flat monthly cost shtick was obviously never a viable business model. They’ve all been spending massively more on inference than they’ve been taking in subscriptions, and even with the changes to token based billing, they still will be.
Anthropic is claiming that they will have their first “profitable” month soon, but that’s actually just a magic trick of book keeping. They’re deferring some cost of compute for a few months, and accepting a bunch of pre payments from customersr. Basically pretending to have high revenue and lower cost by shifting when the payments are made. And then on top of that they’re jacking up prices and thus decreasing their demand with the shift to tokens.
Everyone is running around rearranging deck chairs on the datacenter titanic hoping they can keep their feet dry a little longer.
Tokenmaxxing goes brrr
Unions probably would have gone a long way during all this.
Palantir calls for aid! Would Rohan answer?
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