It's a terrible metric, it's kind of like companies paying employees by the hour for white collar work. Most people here probably don't know what it was like to work a contract job and being paid based on actual deliverables. The incentive of AI companies is to create as many tokens as possible to solve any given problem. Just like your incentive as a software engineer is to create as much complexity as possible in o…
Big tech companies don’t usually pay hourly.
Yes they do. The contract says $X and Y stock options per year, Z hours per week.