New trend: extreme hours at AI startups (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

Bring back the T-shirts!

https://www.folklore.org/90_Hours_A_Week_And_Loving_It.html

This isn't a trend. This is just worker exploitation.

May be worth it for founders if you're naturally obsessive about the problem you're solving. No bueno for employees (or anyone with less than say ~5% equity)

do they pay them for every hour they work? I'd be down. but if I'm getting paid for just 40 hours, they can eat my shit

I thought AI was so good that it helps folks and do their work for them.

I expect these guys to have a lot of free time and be super assisted by the genius level LLMs they are developing.

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Got it. Work myself to death so my CEO may become a billionaire based on a vague notion of AGI. Why people willingly do that is beyond me.

The hype is the product and I smell a bubble. Now, how do I turn my cynicism in to money without becoming the people I loathe?