Exactly. But I did find an article ([1]) and spend doesn't seem that high per engineer ($150 to $250 per eng) - at least on average, I assume the costs were skyrocketing towards the end.

> Adoption climbed from 32 percent of engineers in February to 84 percent classified as agentic coding users by March. By spring, 95 percent of Uber engineers used artificial intelligence tools monthly, and roughly 70 percent of committed code originated from those tools. About 11 percent of live backend updates were written by agents with no human in the loop, according to Uber's own disclosures.

> The numbers behind the spend are what make the story instructive rather than anecdotal. Monthly cost per engineer ranged from $150 to $250 on average, with power users running between $500 and $2,000.

My guess is that the reason to rethink AI-spend was probably the exponential growth in cost over time, and tokenmaxxing payoff not being immediately obvious as mentioned in the article.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2026/05/17/uber-bu...