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Comment by jajko | Hacker News Reader

Generally AI engineers are hugely compensated, compared to overall massively compensated IT folks. In such such cases I struggle to find much sympathy, in same vein when some wall street guy complains about burnout while driving some V12 Ferrari from some old paintings auction.

There is always the option to just quit and ask for maybe 50% more at next company struggling desperately with same stuff.

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Keep in mind that this article isn't necessarily talking about the folks who are making the models.

There is a ton of much more ordinary software engineering work that goes into building this stuff. The people being talked about in this article could just be frontend or backend engineers who were working on a product listing page this time last year.

does it matter if they are hugely compensated or not? I don’t understand this. General agreement is usually set when you sign on. Anything outside this agreement would be met with a stern “no”. Now if company wants to airdrop an extra amount into my bank account for this adhoc work, we can discuss terms. Otherwise, …

“Fuck you, pay me”

Not sure why this is so hard. Makes it even difficult when you have bendy co-workers.

Generally, this is not always true. Generally, you’re being a bit of a jerk.

You are basically saying "Pffft. First world problems." Which is always a flippant dismissal of someone's actual problem, and you're doing it in HN of all places. A website by YCombinator, which is more or less the tip of the spear of the first world.

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