Uber blows through its IT budget for AI for 2026 and it's only April citing rising costs of Claude Code
2026-04-22 · r/singularity
Uber managed to burn through its entire 2026 AI budget by April, thanks to developers going wild with Claude Code. Nothing says 'we have AI strategy' like blowing a year's worth of IT budget in four months on a coding assistant. At least the AI is writing code fast — too bad it's also writing invoices faster.