In the Uber Eats app I can't even request a refund for an incorrect order anymore, because the UI doesn't allow me to scroll down to the "submit" button.
It's been like this for months. I finally got my explanation.
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
#442I spend $20/month on Gemini Pro and it greatly increased my productivity. I'm still in charge and only use AI for the more tedious or toughest problems. I can't see how these people could be spending this much productively.
Re: Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
#443I take a peak every month or so at spend for my company and notice more and more are consumed $1k in tokens a month and it is bewildering to me how. I use llms daily, and see anywhere from $200-$400 tops. This is using the most expensive models, in deep thinking mode. So I'm not a Luddite against the usage of them. I just can't figure how _how_ to burn that much money a month responsibly. I genuinely challenge someon…
> I just can't figure how _how_ to burn that much money a month responsibly. From my experience, this happens essentially by three means: - Level 0 (beginner users) long lived conversations: If you dont get in the habit of compressing, or otherwise manually forcing the model to summarize/checkpoint its work, you will often find people perpetually reusing the same conversation. This is especially true for _beginners_,…
How do you compress or otherwise force a model to checkpoint?
Re: Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
#444Earlier quoted context omitted.
I spend about $3k/month (subsidized by the Claude Max plan). I guess I fall under level 3 (2?): I typically have 3-6 agents working simultaneously on the same feature, they each make worktrees, code, run tests and put up PR’s. I also have Github actions which scan for regressions and security issues on each PR. It makes my development cycle extremely fast: I request a feature and just look at Github and look for chan…
It's interesting how quick automating others out of a job turna to automating ourselves out instead
this is where true mastery is, the best DevOps guy I ever worked with told me something that stuck with me forever, “if I do my job right, I should no longer be needed on this project.” time will tell is LLMs will allow SWEs to say the same thing…
Re: Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
#445And here comes the reining in of spending. If companies are anywhere like I'm seeing:
1 - Company mandate, start using AI
2 - You're afraid? Here's a mandate!
3 - (Devs and others discover Claude Code features where the coolest burn mad tokens)
4 - Um, yeah we're going to have to take a look at the spend here
5 _
What's 5?
We know steps 3 and 4 will cycle a bit more, and we know it's going to cost more - these were startup teaser costs.
Re: Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
#446Earlier quoted context omitted.
Missing here: some organizations were rewarding high token usage as productivity without critical evaluation. People were afraid to be in the bottom because outcomes weren't being measured. It is a giant Goodhart's law lesson
What!? Companies rewarding high token usage? That's inane, insane, and small brained. Who in their right mind equivocates spending more money to bring more productive. I'll just set up some burn jobs to kill tokens unnecessarily and then everyone else will too and the company will go bankrupt in 10 days. It seems inconceivable for a company to set up a "who can spend the most of our money" leaderboard for any other c…
If you think this qualifies as insane, you really haven't met many managers, have you...
Re: Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
#447Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just out of curiosity, what type of systems are you working on? What type of features did you implement on your 100k LOC week?
> What type of features did you implement on your 100k LOC week? I work on 3rd party API integrations, of which, we have hundreds, each in its own repo. We need to build thousands more at a fraction of the cost. Any given integration historically takes a human a few days up to a few months to build and is subject to ongoing maintenance. We frequently do not have access to the API and we mostly never have a representa…
>I've been building a new framework to do it better.
So you're using your software factory to build a software factory. Not building thousands of integrations at a fraction of the cost.
Re: Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
#448Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I just can't figure how _how_ to burn that much money a month responsibly. From my experience, this happens essentially by three means: - Level 0 (beginner users) long lived conversations: If you dont get in the habit of compressing, or otherwise manually forcing the model to summarize/checkpoint its work, you will often find people perpetually reusing the same conversation. This is especially true for _beginners_,…
> Just genuinely having 10 worktrees perpetually in parallel and cycling between them in between agent responses. Again, not necessarily bad in itself, but can exponentially conse credits. I'm pretty sure that growth is linear.
Not quite the same scenario, but it's already plausible to have a situation where every subagent is allowed to spawn multiple subagents, in which case we'd have literally exponential credit consumption growth...
Re: 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
#450Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I just can't figure how _how_ to burn that much money a month responsibly. From my experience, this happens essentially by three means: - Level 0 (beginner users) long lived conversations: If you dont get in the habit of compressing, or otherwise manually forcing the model to summarize/checkpoint its work, you will often find people perpetually reusing the same conversation. This is especially true for _beginners_,…
Where is level 2?
We dropped it before level 3 was released.