Comment by prewett
7 months ago
I'm going with envy. Athletics is a completely different skill from software, and one that is looked down on by posters here, judging by the frequent use of "sportsball". "Sportsball" players make huge salaries? Whatever, not my thing, that's for normies. But when software researchers make 1000x my salary? Now it's more personal. Surely they are not 1000x as good as me. It seems unlikely that this guy is 1000x as skilled as the average senior developer, so there's some perceived unfairness, too.
But I counsel a different perspective: it's quite remunerative to be selling tulips when there's a mania on!
It may be envy, but I’m still not sure a direct comparison makes much sense, given how much of a different creature engineering LLMs is from what most devs are doing.
I think negative feelings are coming from more of a “why are they getting paid so much to build a machine that’s going to wreck everything” sort of angle, which I find understandable.
> Surely they are not 1000x as good as me. It seems unlikely that this guy is 1000x as skilled as the average senior developer
Will never understand the logic. They is literally better than an average senior dev, if he has been offered 250m package.