The article <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/3/uber-caps-usage/#atom-everything" author="Simon Willison" source="">Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs</a> writes, <bq>The rideshare giant is limiting all employees to $1,500 in monthly token spending per AI coding tool, an Uber spokesperson said in response to a Bloomberg News inquiry. That means spending on one tool doesn’t have a bearing on the budget for another.</bq> That's $18,000 per year, for those weak in arithmetic. Per tool. The author approves, writing, <bq>A $1,500 monthly limit per tool strikes me as a rational policy response </bq> Of course that strikes you, as a tech blogger, as a rational policy response because you, as a tech blogger are not running a struggling company. An extra $18-54K per year seems reasonable to you, the tech blogger, because <i>obviously</i> all of these LLM coding harnesses are worth that. Should companies instead spend that money on the developer? Nah. How about on a course or education for $2-$5K per year? Not so much. Labor costs are the devil, whereas technology costs are the savior. This isn't a cult. It's a straight-up MLM. Actually, MLMs <i>are</i> cults. I just don't know how much brain damage you need to have to just casually add $18K per developer per tool to the budget and think that this is something that is sustainable for 99% of companies. You know, those companies that don't spend $330,000 median compensation package for software developers in the USA, as Uber does. Most companies' eyes would pop wide open at the increased productivity boost that <i>just giving that $18K to the developer would engender.</i> But, no. They are much more comfortable sending that money to big Daddy in Silicon Valley because <i>of course that makes more sense.</i> Almost no-one is asking about ROI anymore. No-one is even measuring anything. They're just FOMOing their way to success. <img src="{att_link}throwing_money_out_the_window.webp" href="{att_link}throwing_money_out_the_window.webp" align="none" caption="Throwing money out the window" scale="55%">