Jensen Huang argues that the value of human work is shifting toward AI compute consumption. A high-paid engineer's real worth now depends on how efficiently they use AI, not just their output. Staying relevant means mastering AI compute.
That $500,000 engineer, at the end of the year, I'm going to ask them, how many tokens? How much did you spend in tokens? And that person said $5,000, I will go ape something else.
So this is important because we're no longer just talking about human output, we're talking about compute.
Yes, right. If that $500,000 engineer did not consume at least $250,000 worth of tokens, I am going to be deeply Key thing to note, he's saying $250K worth of tokens, not literally $250K. Okay, and this is no different than one of our chip designers who says, guess what, I'm just going to use paper and pencil. I don't think I'm going to need any—
So again, you can get way more done using compute from AI today versus just working the same old human way. That is what Jensen here is saying. And not knowing how to use this stuff is akin to not knowing how to use the internet today, which would basically get you fired. So if you wanna get ahead of all this, just comment newsletter to get more on AI, business, and marketing.
