"He said that, based on talks with Uber's senior engineering leaders, he realized higher token usage did not translate into a proportional increase in useful consumer features."

He's saying that like it's some grand epiphany and not the most self-evident, obvious thing I've heard this month. Some of the literal dumbest people on earth are in charge of these major companies.

This is also Uber we’re talking about. The company that famously developed a massively engineered ledger to track every event across the entire company, globally consistently, forever, in a single database. This definitely adds enormous value to the bottom line!

>obvious thing I've heard this month

not only this month, but it is the basic statement of the single most well known 50 year old book in software project management lol. At this point we need to wipe the slate clean and start over, the industry is run by illiterates.