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• @sundeep Sunny Madra on x

  “If your $500K engineer isn't burning at least $250K in tokens, something is wrong.” [video]

• @kenwheeler Patagucci Perf Papi on x

  if your 250lb friend isn't eating at least 100 big arches a month, something is wrong [image]

• @aravsrinivas Aravind Srinivas on x

  May seem farfetched, but this applies to non-engineers too. There are Perplexity Computer users projected to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars (per user, not the org) on annualized basis.

• @levie Aaron Levie on x

  Without getting into the specific numbers, this underlying concept and trend is going to be very real.  For any worker who is able to wield AI agents effectively in an organization, their compute budgets are just going to monotonically go up over time.  This will of course start …

• @gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x

  It's almost as if the CEO of Apple said “If someone making $500,000 a year did not spend at least $50,000 per year on iOS in-app purchases, I would be deeply alarmed” Yes you would, because it would reduce revenue you generate

• @gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x

  And what rubs me wrong about the original clip is that the advice on engineers should use tools that make them productive IS correct ... except the cost of the tools should NOT be what we focus on! Some of the most useful tools are very cheap / get out of the way etc. Ofc

• @gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x

  This whole segment just rubs me the wrong way Jensen is very clearly talking up his book: wanting to see companies spend *much* more $$$ on GPUs / tokens... to increase NVIDIA revenue even more... to do the same thing as they already do (build software, as they have before)

• @tftc21 @tftc21 on x

  Jensen Huang: “If that $500,000 engineer did not consume at least $250,000 worth of tokens, I am going to be deeply alarmed. This is no different than a chip designer who says 'I'm just going to use paper and pencil. I don't think I'm going to need any CAD tools.'” [video]

• @edandersen Ed Andersen on x

  Software engineers will not be trusted to spend 50% of their salary on variable opex costs with no guarantee of productivity, unless they are executive level. this is a pipe dream to sell GPUs

• @rahll Reid Southen on x

  Wait wait wait waaait a second.... He's saying he wants his $500,000 engineer to actually cost him $750,000 by using $250,000 worth of AI tokens. Wasn't AI supposed to make things cheaper, not cost 50% more?

• @dharmeshba Dharmesh Ba on x

  A friend told me his Bangalore startup has allocated Claude Code limits for every engineer. If an engineer hits the limit faster than others, he is expected to give an explanation. We are not losing to AI. We are losing to f**king bureaucracy.

• @neogoose_btw Dmitriy Kovalenko on x

  I just want to remind the rest of the world: every single AI company here in Silicon Valley get tokens for absolutely free rn It's only you paying those 200$ for max plan

• @kylegawley Kyle Gawley on x

  That's exactly what I would say if I were CEO of a company selling GPUs to AI companies.

• @lorak Lora Kolodny on bluesky

  Jensen Huang proposed giving engineers “AI tokens” in addition to their base salary.  —  www.cnbc.com/2026/03/20/n...  (i'd personally rather get paid better & have better healthcare than perks like this ^ but... sign o the times if anyone wants this.)

• r/LocalLLaMA r on reddit

  Nvidia's Huang pitches AI tokens on top of salary as agents reshape how humans work