Uber Caps AI Coding Tool Spend at $1,500/Month Per Employee
Uber, which blew its entire 2026 AI budget in just four months, has now imposed a hard $1,500/month per-employee cap on AI coding tools like Claude Code, responding to spending that outpaced any 2025 forecast
For AI PMs in large regulated enterprises, this is a concrete proof point that token-level cost controls need to be built into AI programme governance from day one โ not retrofitted after budget overruns become a crisis