I’m thinking about the exchange rate with Shrute bucks.
Back in the day, I did see some cryptocurrency companies try to pay staff with their cryptocurrency. It’s actually a good selection mechanism for the true believers.
Next thing they’ll make them live in AI towns.
I owe my soul to the company store!
what’s the conversion rate of claude tokens to USD? trying to budget for my mcdonald’s tonight
I guess 5.31 NFT?
Somewhere between the conversation rate of Schrute Bucks to Standley Nickles.
If you write 75 lines of shitty code, they will give you a Big Mac.
i have whole git repos full of shitty code, free Big Macs for life!
The least they could do is pay in graphics cards and ram
This is a good way to pay shitty offshore code churn centers and then claim the code they write is AI generated. Which we’ve already seen before. So it’s not unheard of.
Lots of talk on microblog fedi about how this is because they’re insolvent / don’t have the liquid assets.
I’m so looking forward to funding their bailout via my taxes.
In the olden days, this would be known as writing a rubber cheque.
Bouncy bouncy
I mean the tokens basically represent time to use a slave, so tell the slave to do something profitable with the tokens and pocket the surplus value
AI companies are paying in tokens to 1) generate more users for their shitty product and 2) save money.
Those are not signs of a healthy, growing industry. Those look like the last desperate attempts to right the sinking ship.
modern day company scrip, but significantly more useless
