Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI coding budget in four months. One executive racked up a $1,200 bill in a single two-hour Claude Code session. By spring, 95% of their engineers had adopted AI coding tools, with heavy users hitting $2,000 per month.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/aplomb2/why-ubers-1200-claude-code-session-is-actually-a-routing-problem-d66)