A fintech company said its employee burned through $80,000 in tokens making a ‘brainrot shooter game’

• Fintech company Slash was shocked when it saw the artificial intelligence invoices of one of its employees.

• Employee spent more than $80,000 on AI coding a brain-numbing shooter.

• Slash encourages people to play the game so they can write it off as a “marketing expense.”

Fintech company Slash is unveiling a new product that doesn’t quite fit into its usual offerings, an AI-enabled shooter game.

In an X post published on Tuesday, the San Francisco-based company wrote that one of its employees paid a hefty AI coding bill to create a video game.

“Last week we encouraged the company to get more into vibration coding, but @nickbruhman burned $80k in credit on his Slash card for a brain-rotting shooter,” the company wrote.

“Please play so we can write this off as a marketing expense,” he added.

Literally called “Brainrot Shooter”, it is a simple game set in a Minecraft-like environment where the player must shoot characters with internet viral brainrot names such as “skibidi toilet” and “tung tung tung sahur”.

Prediction marketplace Polymarket picked up on the news, writing in an

Employee Nicolas Brilliante, Slash’s head of strategic verticals, posted a screenshot of what appeared to be a dashboard of AI usage, showing he spent $81,267.

“This was a real accident, I underestimated my own ability,” Brilliante wrote.

He later reposted a Polymarket

Brilliante isn’t the only employee building things fast and furious. tokenmaxxing era. Still, many companies are now looking more critically at their AI spending.

Some companies found this AI costs did not translate into productivity growth and was interrupted AI budgets.

Companies like Uber, Coinbase, and Walmart now set limits on how much their employees can spend on AI. with walmart Specifically, he says this is done to prevent unnecessary, repetitive jitter coding.

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