Yea; lightcone is much closer to any other group I knew of before. I was really surprised by their announcement.
I think it’s highly unusual (this seems much higher than the other and previous non-ai eng roles I knew of).
I’d also be very surprised if Lightcone chose someone for $400,000 or more. My guess is that they’ll be aiming for the sorts of people who aren’t quite that expensive.
So, I think Lightcone is making a reasonable move here, but it’s an unusual move. Also, if we thought that future ea/engineering projects would have to pay $200k-500k per engineer, I think that would change the way we think about them a lot.
Yea; lightcone is much closer to any other group I knew of before. I was really surprised by their announcement.
I think it’s highly unusual (this seems much higher than the other and previous non-ai eng roles I knew of).
I’d also be very surprised if Lightcone chose someone for $400,000 or more. My guess is that they’ll be aiming for the sorts of people who aren’t quite that expensive.
So, I think Lightcone is making a reasonable move here, but it’s an unusual move. Also, if we thought that future ea/engineering projects would have to pay $200k-500k per engineer, I think that would change the way we think about them a lot.