Funny you should mention Uber. What was it their COO said recently about the AI costs?

I quoted exactly what they said in my piece, under the heading "The AI-failure stories around this are pretty thin": https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/product-market-fit/#th...

> But then you sometimes go and talk to your senior engineering leaders and you’re saying, OK, how many projects that were on the cutting room floor got moved above the line because of the productivity gains because 25% of our code commits were via Claude Code last quarter?

> That link is not there yet, right? I think maybe implicitly there’s more that is getting shipped. But it’s very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and, OK, now we’re actually producing like 25% more useful consumer features, right? And that line is hard to draw.

That's pretty weak sauce. I don't think that justifies the headlines that came out of it, personally.

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hansmayer 2 hours ago | parent [-]

? What are you talking about mate? The man all but says "this shit does not work for us". It iss layered in that careful, sanitised corporate shit-sandwich communication approach, where you take a nice piece of shit and layer it in between two slices of avocado so its sweeter to swallow for the "consumer" of your message.

He also said in that article that what prompted the discussion was the public statement by the Uber CTO that he had already burnt through his organisations yearly AI-budget in April. Please stop this shilling mate, and trying to hide the overall perspective between this or that word.

	▲	simonw 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Did you read my piece? I covered the Uber CTO thing too: https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/product-market-fit/#th... > The most discussed has been Uber, based on this report where CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga indicated that Uber had “maxed out its full year AI budget just a few months into 2026”, mostly thanks to Claude Code. > Given that Claude Code only got really good in November it’s entirely unsurprising to me that a budget set in 2025 may have failed to predict demand for that tool in 2026!