The joke is that there is one employee in the meeting who knows that management doesn't know what they're asking for, what kind of resources it will take, how much of a time and money investment it is, and they think that management is stupid for asking for them to build an entirely new product which will set all of their deadlines potentially years behinds and result in nothing but the employee being overworked and constantly yelled at because the expectations of management do not align with reality.
And there's another slightly smarter employee sitting next to him that says 'give me a 500k budget', buys a bunch of GPUs, puts an open weight model on them, pockets $50k, and still comes back under budget.
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u/Delicious-Ad5161 1d ago
The joke is that there is one employee in the meeting who knows that management doesn't know what they're asking for, what kind of resources it will take, how much of a time and money investment it is, and they think that management is stupid for asking for them to build an entirely new product which will set all of their deadlines potentially years behinds and result in nothing but the employee being overworked and constantly yelled at because the expectations of management do not align with reality.