blowing the budget is their own damn fault. they put up a leaderboard, ffs.
even ranked their internal usage competitively on internal leader boards,
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Bloomberg reports that the company has instituted a new rule that places a monthly $1,500 cap per employee and per agentic coding tool, including Anthropic’s Claude Code or Cursor.
They went from threatening people's jobs if they didn't use more AI, to threatening people's jobs if they use too much AI.
And it's ALL the workers' fault, the dummies. Let's replace them all with AI.
That's a lot. I recently reported a coworker who was spending over 100 euros on ai. We're a school.
Wow, imagine if they had put that budget into paying their employees.
$1500 per employee per agent per month? So assuming that's between three agents, that's literally $4500 per employee per month that they're choosing to waste instead of just paying their employees better...
Sounds like an opportunity for workers to sabotage the system by using AI too much without increasing productivity. Let the assholes figure it out for themselves.
Some companies are already firing people to save on salary costs and pay more for AI.
It seems to be basically crack for the command centers of capitalist companies.
AI seems like a genius solution for the mediocre and the lazy. I guess all these tech companies are full of mediocre and lazy people in the c-suite.
Unfortunately it's a bit of an "emperors new clothes" situation as none of them will admit AI is worse than what they were told
Meanwhile...
Jesus that’s it?!?! That’s less than 6/hr assuming the 20 minute estimate holds (which it won’t)
I don’t think that covers the gas…
includes expected tip
What? How??
Are people in TX bad tippers?
I would say that Uber is a shitty company. Tipping is bs, you should get paid a decent salary and it's your employer's responsability to do that.
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I think the user decides how much to tip in advance, and the app conveys that information to potential matches. Orders with low tips tend to sit there unclaimed, because no driver wants to bother with that
I'm not sure if Uber does it that way, but Doordash does.
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You know what's crazy is we're still in the "charge not enough to make money" phase of these VC backed startups trajectory. It's gonna be wild when we aren't in the "hook the users with unrealistic token prices" phase.
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Oh thats sad. Wouldn't have wished it on a better corporation...
Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in 4 months
AI is getting expensive, and some companies are cutting back on usage in an attempt to moderate costs. That cohort includes Uber, which recently instituted internal usage caps as a way to cut down on its exorbitant AI spend.
Bloomberg reports that the company has instituted a new rule that places a monthly $1,500 cap per employee and per agentic coding tool, including Anthropic’s Claude Code or Cursor. The usage is trackable via an internal dashboard that each employee has access to, although — in certain cases — the caps can be exceeded with permission, the company says.
The news is perhaps not too surprising, since, in April, the company’s CTO revealed that the ridesharing giant had blown through its entire annual AI budget in a matter of four months. That appears to have occurred after Uber encouraged staff to use AI “as much as possible” and even ranked their internal usage competitively on internal leader boards, The Information previously reported.
Uber’s COO, Andrew Macdonald, also recently cast doubt on AI’s productivity impact, noting during a podcast appearance that “it’s very hard to draw a line” between AI usage and new consumer features.
Uber’s cutback raises a broader issue that the tech industry is currently facing: As enterprises pour money into AI, where exactly is the return on investment? Indeed, AI ROI has so far remained a largely theoretical phenomenon that everybody hopes will eventually materialize — although some companies are obviously getting a little restless while they wait.
Lol
I guess more AI doesn’t mean more productivity. Who could’ve imagined?
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