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Netflix lists $900,000 AI job as actors and writers continue to strike (www.engadget.com)
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Netflix lists $900,000 AI job as actors and writers continue to strike::Will this pair of Hollywood strikes ever end? It looks like the big corporations are digging in for a long battle, illustrated by Netflix’s recent job posting for a machine learning platform product manager.

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[–] Pieisawesome 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

900k total comp is huge, but not astronomical in my opinion.

If you look at levels.fyi, it seems to match up with very high level engineers at most FAANG companies.

If you were to bring in someone to head up all of your AI for writing, you'd want to bring someone really good in.

These people are few and far between and money is a strong lure.

While this total comp is probably beyond you or I, there are definitely a lot of people in that ballpark.

900k base salary would be nuts

[–] Auduras 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, fair point. Perhaps "astronomical" was a bit exaggerated. Well....from my perspective anyway!

[–] Pieisawesome 1 points 1 year ago

When you are spending billions of dollars on programs, 1m is peanuts.

If you can speed up a billion dollar program by 1%/improve by 1%, you got your money's worth.

But people of that tier usually make a much bigger impact.

Anders Hejlsberg, the creator of C# and typescript is a great example.

He created two major modern languages, take typescript alone, there are tens of thousands of developers who work on just the tooling for typescript between eslint, webpack, react, angular, etc.