@ghostincome.hq: Uber just burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in 4 months — due to Claude. ⠀ ⠀ Uber's CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga: back to the drawing board. ⠀ ⠀ 5,000 engineers had Claude Code access by December. By March, 84% were agentic coders. Today 70% of committed code is AI-written. ⠀ ⠀ $3.4B R&D budget — still not enough. ⠀ ⠀ The cost problem: Claude Code bills per token, not per seat. Engineers running parallel agents and full-codebase refactors compound tokens fast — no one priced the pace. ⠀ ⠀ 🔗 Reporting: The Information (applied-ai) #ai #claude #claudecode #anthropic #uber #ainews #aieconomy #agenticai #softwareengineering #technology
AI being more expensive than the engineers they fired with mass layoffs is hilarious ngl 😂
2026-04-21 14:33:02
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personwiwieudb828 :
Btw 3.4 billion burned in 4 months means that they could hire literally 50,000 engineers at a 200,000 annual salary for the same price.
2026-04-22 05:19:03
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Concezio :
how many engineers could you hire for 3.4B?
2026-04-21 16:09:29
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Chibee The Gray Catsby :
So these companies HAVE money. Just not for hiring people. 😂
2026-04-21 18:17:15
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Campingkudi :
They’ll hire McKenzie and pay them 32.4 million to tell them to increase the budget for Claude and lay off developers. We live in the best timeline.
2026-04-21 16:48:22
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meanxchristine :
I love that tech is figuring out ai is a bust for complex environments. For simple, repetitive jobs it’s amazing. It can’t replace common sense, intuition and foresight.
2026-04-21 23:16:20
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Harrymoto :
If you ever let Claude run on its own, it keeps messing up and trying again and again, wasting tokens. I think by design.
2026-04-21 15:41:11
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CayG864356 :
I’m a product manager for a healthcare company and this is exactly what’s happening. We are forced to use AI by leaders and they don’t realize the cost of tokens. One process we replaced people only to have a $600k token bill every six months, instead.
2026-04-23 12:33:13
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Anon :
3.4 billion worth of slop code 🤣
2026-04-22 13:09:56
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andrew :
September: “You need to be using AI for everything!”
April: “Youre using AI too much!!”
2026-04-21 22:10:19
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helloimtubbs :
they burn through $3.4 billion in four months but i cant get an avocado toast every once in a while 💀
2026-04-21 19:05:46
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idkmbffj0 :
If only the human experts had warned of this
2026-04-21 20:28:48
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Noon Moon Bloom Co. :
Anything but paying people a livable wage
2026-04-22 15:19:44
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Haru :
in simple terms:
They fired humans to replace them with AI to lower the cost of operations.
They spent a year's worth of salaries in AI only four months into it.
2026-04-23 20:20:27
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Psyduck :
Fire the board for not seeing this coming. AI is heavily subsidised. The whole point is to get companies relying on them then jack up the price
2026-04-23 03:29:21
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....AlexV :
and have you seen the massive improvement in the uber app? me neither
2026-04-22 14:44:46
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TheGreatBambini :
As a software engineer who's learning to use AI as a way to stay relevant this is ridiculously funny to me. I never wanted to rely on AI, now maybe I wont have to.
2026-04-22 02:09:23
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Momsthrillinglife🎢 :
I love this for them.
2026-04-22 14:05:15
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Flyinvdreams | TTV :
All that technical debt is going to be fun to deal with in a few years 😂
2026-04-21 20:00:19
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it's whatever :
ai writing about ai lol
2026-04-21 18:26:27
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Chad Inc. :
AI overhyped and under delivering
2026-04-23 03:46:00
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vamps :
These CEOs think AI is the way have never used it. It needs such specific prompts, redoing it over and over to get close to the original ask. Like an actual human engineer doesn’t mess up as often as AI does.
2026-04-22 22:21:14
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NotTheOneNorTwo :
And everyone in tech did mass layoffs because AI was supposed to save money and make things more efficient. 😃🤣
2026-04-22 10:54:31
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REV :
its not a claude problem... its a ceo problem...
2026-04-22 12:49:27
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