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Uber circling the drain?

  • A company spent $500,000,000 on Claude in one month because nobody set usage limits

  • Uber ran leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used, not what they shipped

  • Uber burned their entire 2026 budget by April. Their COO said he can’t connect any of it to consumer features

  • A CTO told Axios employees were using enterprise AI to check the weather

  • Microsoft canceled most Claude Code licenses because the token bill spiraled

  • Companies are now laying people off to pay the AI bill. Not because AI replaced the work. Because the bill replaced the headcount.

https://xcancel.com/Polymarket/status/2060034216906068131#m AI consultant reveals a client accidentally spent $500,000,000.00 in a single month after failing to set employee limits on Claude usage.

Edit: Source is Axios. https://xcancel.com/edzitron/status/2060006709557690841

Uber circling the drain? > - A company spent $500,000,000 on Claude in one month because nobody set usage limits > - Uber ran leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used, not what they shipped > - Uber burned their entire 2026 budget by April. Their COO said he can’t connect any of it to consumer features > - A CTO told Axios employees were using enterprise AI to check the weather > - Microsoft canceled most Claude Code licenses because the token bill spiraled > - Companies are now laying people off to pay the AI bill. Not because AI replaced the work. Because the bill replaced the headcount. https://xcancel.com/Polymarket/status/2060034216906068131#m AI consultant reveals a client accidentally spent $500,000,000.00 in a single month after failing to set employee limits on Claude usage. Edit: Source is Axios. https://xcancel.com/edzitron/status/2060006709557690841
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Anthropic seems like they're a temporary pyramid scheme. You know some account rep was looking at that bill running up just laughing his ass off.

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