If Your $500K Engineer Isn't Burning $250K in Tokens

“If your $500K engineer isn’t burning at least $250K in tokens… I will go ape $%#&. Something is wrong.” Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA

Translation: If your superstar is only spending $5K on AI all year?

Not mad. Disappointed. And slightly terrified.

This isn’t hype. It’s the new math.

Pencil-and-paper engineers? Gone.

“Too hard” thoughts? Deleted.

Future job title: Idea Architect + Agent Swarm Commander

You no longer code. You ideate. You spec.

You direct 100 AI agents like a conductor who actually knows what good sounds like.

Dev talent who treats AI like a nice-to-have?

They’re the modern equivalent of the guy still using a flip phone in 2026.

So tell me…

How many tokens is your team burning this quarter?

Is it anything near 50% of your devs salary?

Be honest. I promise not to go ape.