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Uber's COO says it's getting harder to justify the money spent on AI tokenmaxxing
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Uber's chief operating officer stated that the company is struggling to justify its AI spending, citing a lack of proportional productivity gains relative to increasing costs, and noting that the company exhausted its 2026 Claude Code budget by April.
Uber's COO says it's getting harder to justify the money spent on AI tokenmaxxing
Andrew Macdonald said it's getting harder to justify money spent on AI.
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Uber's COO said it's getting harder to justify the trade-offs of AI investments in the company.
He said he's not seeing proportional productivity gains from increasing AI costs.
Uber's CTO said in April that the company had burned through its Claude Code budget for the whole of 2026.
A top Uber exec said AI is not giving the company bang for its buck.
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