Uber Caps AI Coding Tool Spend at $1,500 per Employee per Tool per Month

Summary

Per a Bloomberg report surfaced by Simon Willison (June 3), Uber has imposed a monthly spending limit of $1,500 per employee, per AI coding tool, to control costs as agentic coding usage scales. The cap applies to metered agentic software such as Cursor and Claude Code, with a separate budget for each tool so that one tool's consumption does not eat into another's allocation. Willison frames it as "a rational policy response" — for context, he notes his own heavy usage runs ~$1,000/month per pro