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Uber is capping employee spending on AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code at $1,500 per month per tool to manage costs, as reported by Bloomberg's Natalie Lung.

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# A quote from Natalie Lung Source: [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/3/natalie-lung/](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/3/natalie-lung/) 3rd June 2026 > The rideshare giant is limiting all employees to $1,500 in monthly token spending per AI coding tool, an Uber spokesperson said in response to a Bloomberg News inquiry\. That means spending on one tool doesn’t have a bearing on the budget for another\. The limits, which have been instituted in recent months, only apply to agentic coding software such as Cursor or Anthropic PBC’s Claude Code\. —[Natalie Lung](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-02/uber-caps-usage-of-ai-tools-like-claude-code-to-cut-costs),Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs Posted[3rd June 2026](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/3/)at 11:33 am ## Recent articles - [Claude Opus 4\.8: "a modest but tangible improvement"](https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/28/claude-opus-4-8/)\- 28th May 2026 - [I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product\-market fit](https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/product-market-fit/)\- 27th May 2026 - [Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI](https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/25/encyclical-on-ai/)\- 25th May 2026 This is a**quotation**collected by Simon Willison, posted on[3rd June 2026](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/3/)\.

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