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

Slash's employee AI coded a shooter game and accidentally billed the company $80,000 for it.

Screenshot of shooter game/Business Insider

Fintech company Slash is touting a new product that doesn't quite fit in line with its usual offerings — an AI-coded shooter game.In an X post on Tuesday, the San Francisco-based company wrote that one of its employees racked up a hefty AI coding bill building a video game."We encouraged the company last week to start vibe coding more but @nickbruhman burned $80k in credits on the Slash card for a brainrot shooter," the company wrote."Pls play it so we can write this off as a marketing expense," it added.Literally called "Brainrot shooter," it is a bare-bones game set in a Minecraft-esque landscape, where the player has to shoot characters with internet-viral brainrot names like "skibidi toilet" and "tung tung tung sahur."Prediction market Polymarket picked up the news, writing in an X post: "Fintech startup Slash reveals it was forced to roll back its AI coding push after an employee burned $80,000 in tokens in the first week."The employee, Slash's head of strategic verticals, Nicolas Brilliante, posted a screenshot that appeared to be a dashboard of his AI usage, showing he had spent $81,267.