Uber COO: 'Getting Harder to Justify Money Spent on Tokenmaxxing' — 230 Points on HN

Business Insider / Hacker News·high signal

Uber COO Andrew Macdonald publicly questioned AI ROI after the company's CTO revealed Uber burned through its entire 2026 Claude Code budget by April. Despite 95% of engineers using AI tools monthly and 70% of committed code coming from AI systems, Macdonald says higher token usage isn't translating into proportional consumer features. The candid admission — 230 points, 300 comments on HN — signals enterprise pushback against uncritical AI spending.