Pattern: Enterprise AI Cost Explosion — Uber's Budget Burn Signals Industry-Wide Scaling Problem

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Uber's full-year AI coding budget exhausted by April is not an isolated incident — it's the canary for every enterprise adopting AI coding tools. The math: 84% developer adoption × $500-$2K/month/engineer × thousands of engineers = costs that outpace any productivity ROI model built on 2024 assumptions. The 6x cost increase since 2024 suggests enterprise AI budgets built on pilot-stage economics will systematically fail at scale. Uber is now hedging across multiple providers (Anthropic + OpenAI).