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The 'Tokenpocalypse': Uber Caps Coding Agents at $1,500/Month per Tool, Adobe Ends Unlimited Claude Access, Accenture Blames Non-Engineers
404 Media reports that companies which spent the past year urging employees to use AI for everything are now throttling it, based on leaks from Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, Citi, and Accenture. Uber capped employees at $1,500 in monthly token spend per agentic coding tool (Cursor, Claude Code) after burning its entire AI budget in four months; Adobe ended unlimited Claude access; some firms cut off specific models entirely. Leaked Accenture audio identifies the surprising cost driver: 'It's actually not our engineers that are driving the token consumption' — it's non-technical staff running trivial jobs like PDF-to-slide conversion.
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