https://preview.redd.it/4j39jgcb7m3h1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=17c48308c26640157531a6e863ad69eb9efc2769 Steven Levy over at WIRED just put out a report on how AI agents are completely blowing up tech company budgets. Uber’s CTO, Pravin Nepali Naga, actually admitted that their devs using Anthropic’s tool, Claude Code, ended up draining the company’s entire 2026 AI budget in only four months. The stats behind it are kind of crazy. Right now, 95% of Uber’s engineers are using AI programs monthly, and about 70% of the code uploaded to the platform is generated by these tools. The cost for API tokens per developer literally jumped from $500 to $2,000 a month. Because of these insane costs, other companies are starting to change their internal policies too. For example, Duolingo’s CEO Luis von Ahn finally killed a rule that required employees to use AI as part of their performance evaluations. Uber’s COO, Andrew Macdonald, noted that this massive spike in token usage isn’t even translating to new features for users, which makes it really hard to justify the actual ROI. Now tech companies are being forced to slow down hiring and move money around just to pay for the massive bills these autonomous systems are running up. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/how-ai-agents-plunged-tech-world-into-chaos/ submitted by /u/andrewaltair
Originally posted by u/andrewaltair on r/ArtificialInteligence