Uber Burns Through Its Entire 2026 AI Budget in Four Months — Claude Code Is the Reason
Here’s a number that should get every engineering leader’s attention: Uber exhausted its entire planned 2026 AI budget before the end of April. Not a quarterly budget. The full annual figure — gone in roughly four months. The culprit wasn’t some surprise infrastructure cost or model training run. It was developer tools. Specifically, 5,000 Uber engineers adopting Anthropic’s Claude Code at a pace nobody anticipated when the year’s budget was set. ...