Spend half your salary on my ass! Or else!
this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2026
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They don't seem to be suggesting they use their own money. Just using their salary as a comparison. It'd be like if a trucking company related gas expenditures to employee salaries. If they had an employee that earned 80k but only spent $20 in gas, that would be odd. They seem to be suggesting that in order to prove their working efficiency, they should be spending a certain amount of company money on AI.
I don't agree with the assessment, but I do think it should be clear that they are not expecting that money to come out of employee salaries.
Reminds me of Elon's comment about programmers value being based on the number of lines of code they'd written.
who cares about readability, lets use if statements for everything to reach maximum value,
I think you are correct but using $$ as a metric makes zero sense... is AI less "effective" to engineer chips (as per Jensen) if gas prices raise and therefore the cost of cooling down the data centers?
I think this shitty attempt to line up tokens with salary is based on their absolutely stupid idea to start paying and trading with tokens as if they were real money
Should be clear? In this economy?!
This is an insane take. No paid internal engineer is blowing their own money on this kind of tooling. Nvidia pays for it.
The same expectations would not be true for employees for normal companies either, instead the goal would be to have 2 FTEs and 1FTE worth of token expenditure, instead of 4+ FTEs. Same cost, "more productivity" (at least that is the argument of the people making money from selling AI hardware.)
Slop pusher really wants everyone to use the slop machine. More at 11.
This is just self-serving messaging that he's hoping will impact the AI spend and policy of other CEOs.
Maybe he believes it, maybe he doesn't, but it's 100% in his interest to make other decision makers believe that he believes it.
If you're paying me $500k, I'll do whatever stupid bullshit you want me to do. Just keep the paychecks coming. I don't care if you totally fuck up your stupid company, by then I'll have a fat nest egg, and I'll just walk away without looking back at the explosions.
If a company wants me to use a "tool" to do my job, they have to pay for it.
Replace ALL CEOs with AI first
As someone who pays $20/month for cursor for work and never go past my quotas to finish all my month's tasks, AND who has transitioned to almost not coding manually at all and mostly just reviewing generated code, what the FUCK are y'all doing that would ever eat anywhere even close to half your damn salary???? How can you trust any of the output at that kind of volume???
Man, it's gotten REALLY hard to gauge yourself as a developer nowadays. I have no idea if I'm falling behind or not, and I'm pretty sure more than half of y'all would already condemn me for going too far for using AI, while at least a few would laugh at how behind I am.
Regardless, fuck you Jensen. Fuck you and your crocodile leather jacket.
No no no no you fool. That's a classic blunder. He's indicating the ideal cost of using tokens and possibly foreshadowing where price increases are going.
we are about to see buggy ass chips from nvidia now.
So company trying to pay in company script again?
Can they still spend the other half of their salary at non company affiliated stores?
I think Jensen is really onto something here.
Let’s destroy the world faster so humans (or whatever replaces us) can start rebuilding sooner.
It’s really a public service
How about we just destroy these stupid corporations
Or perhaps we can just make the world a better place without needing to destroy it first? Kinda hard to make anything better when the entire world looks like Venus.
My company should be providing me the tools I need to get things done. If I’m making $500K, that means the company should be willing to pony up $250K in tokens, not me personally.
(Not to mention that I reject the entire premise)
To be honest, I'd trust the paper and pencil work much more.
I can stab techbro shillionaires like Huang with a pencil and write a ransom note with said pencil and paper. Can't do that with AI slop "brokens" now can I?
Look just because the CEO needs to spend half his salary on AI tokens to exist doesn't mean the engineers do
Why on earth would anyone ask Jensen Huang about whether he thinks people should use AI?
In other words, CEO compares not knowing how to work to being able to prove you ain't pulling shit out your ass. That's all I get from his pen and paper analogy.
Real Engineer: Huh. How much Cthonic Horror Porn does $250,000 in tokens buy me?
CEO says use my product it is great.
Atop fucking posting what dioshit CEOs say. You are stupidier for reading it.
Luigi?
He got paid $50 million last year, so should he be consuming $25 million in tokens?
Economic quotas. Yeah, does he have a 5 year plan already as well?
Stupid Jacket says Nvidia engineers should use AI tokens worth half their annual salary every year to be fully productive — compares not using slop to using paper and pencil for designing chips