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Tech giants are shifting billions from salaries to AI tokens, with Nvidia’s CEO warning that if engineers use less than half their salary in AI tools, it’s a red flag. Companies like Meta and Oracle are cutting jobs not for performance, but to fund AI — yet results are mixed. AI-generated code at Uber didn’t improve customer experience, and Klarna’s AI customer reps led to plummeting satisfaction, forcing them to rehire humans. The trend reveals a costly misstep: replacing people with AI isn’t delivering ROI, while empowering existing teams with AI tools is. The real winners? Companies investing in people who use AI — not AI that replaces them. Younger workers pay the price as junior developer roles stall, and the math is clear: AI tokens often cost more than a human’s salary — and the lesson? Invest in people, not just pixels.

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