r/wallstreetbets • u/waIIstr33tb3ts • Feb 28 '25

News Google's Sergey Brin Says Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI That Could Replace Them

https://gizmodo.com/googles-sergey-brin-says-engineers-should-work-60-hour-weeks-in-office-to-build-ai-that-could-replace-them-2000570025
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u/King_Awesomeland Feb 28 '25

sure pay us $1000/hour.
we can all work for a decade and then retire as kings.

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u/campcosmos3 Mar 01 '25

That's $20M salary across those 10 years. Just FYI. 

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u/penguincheerleader Mar 02 '25

Yeah, I could retire on that.

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u/uglyfang Mar 01 '25

This is (unironically) not too far off from what Google AI engineers make all in. Actually might be an underestimate

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u/the_mighty_skeetadon Mar 01 '25

Correct. $1k/hr is about $2m per year if turned to salary. Some of these researchers are getting $5m+

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u/Purpl3Unicorn Mar 03 '25

$2m is director level. Most of the people actually working on the AI and not just ideating are L5/6 and making $400-$750k

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u/IHadTacosYesterday Feb 28 '25

Isn't there some AI consultant genius at Google that they're paying like several billion per year?

Noam Shazeer is the name.

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u/DapperCam Feb 28 '25

They bought his company for that much. It was venture capital back company so he just keeps a slice of it.

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u/armen89 Mar 01 '25

That’s still amazing

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u/Tricky_Analysis3742 Mar 01 '25

until they simply turn off value of the money you spent... unless you turn it into some physical worth like gold