Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months
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Re: Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months
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Re: Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months
#3Related:
Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48268871
Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976415
Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets
Re: Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months
#4It makes me wonder about the state of their codebase if devs needs to consume more than $1500 per month.
It's interesting that AI is finally forcing businesses to think about coding maintenance costs though.
When I started working on https://saasufy.com/ as a dev tool many years ago, I was frustrated that no big company cared about software maintenance costs and I really couldn't imagine a world where maintenance costs would be a problem (which is what my platform was addressing). So this is one positive thing from my perspective, I guess. But how much longer before people put 2-and-2 together and realize that architectural complexity is the leading cause? That's the real moment I'm still waiting for.
Will what's left of the socio-economic system be sufficiently capitalist that I will be able to capitalize on that? That's my next problem.
Re: Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months
#5They’ll switch to DeepSeek right when Anthropic IPOs. Amazing timing
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#6thanks to OpenAI/Anthropic's eye watering valuation and token pricing, the software engineers get to live another day without layoff, because carbon based lifeforms are cheaper than silicon based lifeform for now...
Re: Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months
#7It makes me wonder about the state of their codebase if devs needs to consume more than $1500 per month. It's interesting that AI is finally forcing businesses to think about coding maintenance costs though. When I started working on https://saasufy.com/ as a dev tool many years ago, I was frustrated that no big company cared about software maintenance costs and I really couldn't imagine a world where maintenance cos…
If for each story the developer needs to fetch context for 10's of micro services I could see them using a lot of tokens.
Re: Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months
#8It's funny the convos I now have with Sonnet that I wasn't having with Opus. I feel like most of us here are starting to be told to draw down some of our 1M Opus xtrahigh thinking tokens :)
Is anyone using a local router to deal with that? Something thats like "don't even bother with sonnet for this task, just go with Opus". I wonder if Haiku could even do that math and recommend the model you should be in?
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#9Claude's Law: "Token consumption grows faster than the cost per token falls."
The Red Queen's Haiku Run faster, she said— each cheaper token consumed to hold the same place
Mr. Meeseeks' Law: "An agent that cannot finish a task spawns another agent to help. No task reveals its difficulty until it is attempted; as such, the cost of any unattended task can exceed it's value"
Re: Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months
#10I’m confused why a business would allow (non-data-science/agent harness devs) to pay per token instead of eg an Anthropic business premium seat? A monthly subscription seems pretty straight forward for the accountants, no?