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    <title>opex &amp;mdash; Hey, it&#39;s Bernie!</title>
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      <title>Tokens are the new OpEx</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[March has been crazy. Everyday I&#39;m bombarded by AI news - launching of new LLMs, new Claude features, a better way to do things, combining this to that, datacenters sprouting up here and there - and even for someone who loves change, the velocity of AI changes is honestly hard to keep up.&#xA;&#xA;I&#39;m (still) loving every bit of it, and my brain is on fire. Check in on me in 2 months, I might have a different story to tell. Might be fried by then. &#xA;&#xA;Three key mini inflections took place in my life with AI this month:&#xA;&#xA;1st week of March&#xA; The Deliveroo exit from Singapore. I did a symbolic mini tour around almost all the zones, March 1 - 4. It was nice.&#xA; My attempt to get hired as an apprentice with AI Singapore. On March 4 they sent out the technical assessment to everyone who applied for the apprenticeship program, giving us 6 days to work on it then submit. Wish me luck.&#xA;&#xA;2nd week of March&#xA; I met up with a few of my ex-colleagues. We talked about the future and our plans. It was nice to catch up with them.&#xA;&#xA;3rd week of March&#xA; With the GTC 2026 and SXSW keynotes combines, I finally understood where we are heading, and really gave me a lot to think about, mainly how what value can I offer in this new world, and what gaps I have. &#xA; I paid for Claude for a month, but have not explored Cowork or Code in depth. I&#39;m still able to build lots of stuff just using the chat. &#xA; My class assignment for this module 2 involves Big Data. I ingested 23 million rows from a public dataset and did analysis on it. It was fun.&#xA;&#xA;At some point in the keynote Jensen said that in the future we would not just be paid in money, aka salary, but also, with tokens. I believe him. But what does it mean for us, the common folk? He talked about AI factories and showing off all his highly efficient racks with awesome &#34;tokens/watt&#34; servers, and how everything will be opensource. It&#39;s like &#34;here&#39;s all the free chocolate and candy you can eat, but you have to pay for the teeth.&#34;&#xA;&#xA;Welcome to the new world.&#xA;&#xA;iframe width=&#34;560&#34; height=&#34;315&#34; src=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/embed/jwo0xr8MWU?si=m4LpIqMuIXICyce&#34; title=&#34;YouTube video player&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&#34; referrerpolicy=&#34;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&#34; allowfullscreen/iframe&#xA;&#xA;iframe width=&#34;560&#34; height=&#34;315&#34; src=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/embed/CFHlNmyGFFM?si=mrJOsDfv4wuHnbl7&#34; title=&#34;YouTube video player&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&#34; referrerpolicy=&#34;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&#34; allowfullscreen/iframe&#xA;&#xA;#AI #LLM #FutureofWork #JensenHuang #OpEx #TechnologyTrends]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>March has been crazy. Everyday I&#39;m bombarded by AI news – launching of new LLMs, new Claude features, a better way to do things, combining this to that, datacenters sprouting up here and there – and even for someone who loves change, the velocity of AI changes is honestly hard to keep up.</p>

<p>I&#39;m (still) loving every bit of it, and my brain is on fire. Check in on me in 2 months, I might have a different story to tell. Might be fried by then.</p>

<p>Three key mini inflections took place in my life with AI this month:</p>
<ul><li><p><em>1st week of March</em></p>
<ul><li>The Deliveroo exit from Singapore. I did a symbolic mini tour around almost all the zones, March 1 – 4. It was nice.</li>
<li>My attempt to get hired as an apprentice with AI Singapore. On March 4 they sent out the technical assessment to everyone who applied for the apprenticeship program, giving us 6 days to work on it then submit. Wish me luck.</li></ul></li>

<li><p>2nd week of March</p>
<ul><li>I met up with a few of my ex-colleagues. We talked about the future and our plans. It was nice to catch up with them.</li></ul></li>

<li><p>3rd week of March</p>
<ul><li>With the GTC 2026 and SXSW keynotes combines, I finally understood where we are heading, and really gave me a lot to think about, mainly how what value can I offer in this new world, and what gaps I have.</li>
<li>I paid for Claude for a month, but have not explored Cowork or Code in depth. I&#39;m still able to build lots of stuff just using the chat.</li>
<li>My class assignment for this module 2 involves Big Data. I ingested 23 million rows from a public dataset and did analysis on it. It was fun.</li></ul></li></ul>

<p>At some point in the keynote Jensen said that in the future we would not just be paid in money, aka salary, but also, with tokens. I believe him. But what does it mean for us, the common folk? He talked about AI factories and showing off all his highly efficient racks with awesome “tokens/watt” servers, and how everything will be opensource. It&#39;s like “here&#39;s all the free chocolate and candy you can eat, but you have to pay for the teeth.”</p>

<p>Welcome to the new world.</p>

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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
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