Dev pushes back on Italy's lowball AI salaries: 'You'd have to be Karpathy'
tensorqt · x · 2026-08-25
A viral complaint says AI roles in Italy pay so poorly that "to earn 50k you'd have to be Andrej Karpathy." Another developer responded that skilled engineers should simply refuse to work for such companies and tell them why.
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