> Oh and he pays engineers $500,000 to spend $250,000 on Claude tokens.

If a CEO wants to pay engineers $500,000 and then let them spend as much as they need on tools and services, I'm all for it.

Getting angry at a CEO for paying high compensation and also having a high tool use budget is not a take I expected on Hacker News.

250k isn't a budget. It's the minimum that he said someone _should_ spend or else he would think they're doing something wrong.

It's an insane take. Completely bone-headed. Just obvious grift.