--- title: Meta’s Adam Mosseri says AI token budgets could soon be... description: Instagram head Adam Mosseri predicts that within a year or two, companies like Meta will need to cap AI token spending per engineer, treating it like payroll... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/meta-s-adam-mosseri-says-ai-token-budgets-could-soon-be-capped-per-engineer-u6o6r0o2k twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Meta’s Adam Mosseri says AI token budgets could soon be capped per engineer | daily.dev og:description: Instagram head Adam Mosseri predicts that within a year or two, companies like Meta will need to cap AI token spending per engineer, treating it like payroll... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/meta-s-adam-mosseri-says-ai-token-budgets-could-soon-be-capped-per-engineer-u6o6r0o2k og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/u6o6r0o2k.png og:image:alt: Meta’s Adam Mosseri says AI token budgets could soon be capped per engineer og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Meta’s Adam Mosseri says AI token budgets could soon be capped per engineer **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Instagram head Adam Mosseri predicts that within a year or two, companies like Meta will need to cap AI token spending per engineer, treating it like payroll or operating expenses. He notes Meta shut down an internal token spend leaderboard after AI costs approached billions in 2026. Uber and Microsoft have already taken similar steps — Uber blew through its AI coding budget by April, and Microsoft cancelled Claude Code licenses in favor of its own Copilot CLI. Mosseri envisions token caps proportional to each engineer's demonstrated ROI, while expecting model pricing wars to eventually drive costs down. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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