Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
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Re: Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
#2Is this a submarine? https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Re: Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
#3> 95% of Uber engineers now use AI tools monthly with 70% of committed code originating from AI.
Well, that’s to be expected when using AI tools becomes relevant in your performance evaluation.
Re: Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
#4Can these AI-generated articles not be prompted to at least cite the primary sources? How do I know any of this is true?
Here's a much better article: https://aimagazine.com/news/why-uber-has-already-burned-thro...
Re: Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
#5It's very easy to blow through hundreds of dollars a session using API tokens especially with the 1m context if you aren't careful about clearing old context.
At the same time the subscription will allow the same usage for hundreds of dollars a month.
Either Anthropic is absolutely hosing API users, massively subsidizing subscriptions, or a little bit of both.
Re: Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
#6I know I'm responding to AI right now, but
> which means figuring out if the company can afford this level of productivity at scale.
If it was actually productive, then the revenue would increase and affordability wouldn't be a question.
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#7This terrible unsourced article seems to be citing this information piece: https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/applied-ai/uber-c...
... but the key fact about "$500-$2000" per engineer does not appear there, and seems to be fabricated.
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Re: Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
#9It's very easy to blow through hundreds of dollars a session using API tokens especially with the 1m context if you aren't careful about clearing old context. At the same time the subscription will allow the same usage for hundreds of dollars a month. Either Anthropic is absolutely hosing API users, massively subsidizing subscriptions, or a little bit of both.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/03/05/cursor-goes...
"Cursor estimated last year that a $200-per-month Claude Code subscription could use up to $2,000 in compute, suggesting significant subsidization by Anthropic. Today, that subsidization appears to be even more aggressive, with that $200 plan able to consume about $5,000 in compute"
Re: Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
#10Wonderful, so when will I see novel features in my Uber app?