--- title: Uber Spends Full 2026 AI Budget in 4 Months | daily.dev description: Uber exhausted its entire 2026 AI budget within four months after rolling out Claude Code and Cursor to its engineering team. Usage of Claude Code doubled by... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/uber-spends-full-2026-ai-budget-in-4-months-btz7deban twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Uber Spends Full 2026 AI Budget in 4 Months | daily.dev og:description: Uber exhausted its entire 2026 AI budget within four months after rolling out Claude Code and Cursor to its engineering team. Usage of Claude Code doubled by... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/uber-spends-full-2026-ai-budget-in-4-months-btz7deban og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/bTZ7deBaN.png og:image:alt: Uber Spends Full 2026 AI Budget in 4 Months 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. # Uber Spends Full 2026 AI Budget in 4 Months **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Uber exhausted its entire 2026 AI budget within four months after rolling out Claude Code and Cursor to its engineering team. Usage of Claude Code doubled by February 2026 after a December 2025 launch, with individual engineers incurring $500–$2,000/month in API costs. By April, 95% of Uber engineers were using AI tools monthly, forcing leadership back to the drawing board on AI budgeting. Cursor plateaued while Claude Code dominated workflows. The situation highlights a broader industry challenge: AI coding tools are proving so productive that limiting access feels counterproductive, yet the costs are difficult to forecast and manage at scale. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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