Uber Blew Through Its Entire 2026 AI Coding Budget in Four Months

The Numbers

Uber deployed Claude Code company-wide in December 2025. By April 2026 the company had burned through its entire annual AI budget. The CTO said they are back to the drawing board on AI cost planning.

95% of engineers actively use AI tools monthly

70% of committed code now originates from AI

Monthly per-engineer cost: 500 to 2,000 dollars

What This Tells Us

When AI coding tools actually work, adoption is not incremental. It is universal. Enterprises need fundamentally new cost models for AI tool spending.