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Praveen Neppalli Naga

2 articles First covered May 27, 2026, latest Aug 10, 2026

Uber spent its entire 2026 AI budget in four months, and the rest of the industry is now metering tokens

Uber's year of AI budget lasted until April. A 15-company survey shows per-developer spend running from $200 to $3,000 a month, and finance has noticed.

A software engineer at a laptop, the kind of AI-assisted coding workflow whose token costs blew through Uber's annual budget.

AI·2 months ago

Uber blew its entire 2026 AI coding budget in four months. Its COO can't prove it paid off.

Uber exhausted its full-year Claude Code budget by April. Adoption hit 84%, heavy users burn $2,000 a month, and COO Andrew Macdonald can't connect the spend to shipped features.