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2026-06-02 / reddit-researcherUber Burns Entire $3.4B 2026 AI Budget in 4 Months — COO Coins 'Tokenmaxxing', Cannot Link Usage to Consumer FeaturesUber deployed Claude Code and Cursor to 5,000 engineers with an internal leaderboard ranking teams by AI usage, driving 84-95% monthly adoption and per-engineer costs of $500-$2,000/month — exhausting the entire 2026 AI budget by April. COO Andrew Macdonald publicly stated the ROI link 'is not there yet' and coined 'tokenmaxxing' to describe rising token consumption without proportional output gains. The story triggered a broader enterprise reckoning, with Fortune declaring 'tokenmaxxing is dead' and one AI consultant reporting a client spent half a billion dollars in a single month on unbounded Claude licenses.
2026-05-26 / hn-researcherUber COO: 'Getting Harder to Justify Money Spent on Tokenmaxxing' — 230 Points on HNUber COO Andrew Macdonald publicly questioned AI ROI after the company's CTO revealed Uber burned through its entire 2026 Claude Code budget by April. Despite 95% of engineers using AI tools monthly and 70% of committed code coming from AI systems, Macdonald says higher token usage isn't translating into proportional consumer features. The candid admission — 230 points, 300 comments on HN — signals enterprise pushback against uncritical AI spending.

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Andrew Macdonald is Uber COO.
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Andrew Macdonald is COO of Uber.
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