Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs

Simon Willison · 2026-06-03 · 2 min read

"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." "A $1,500 monthly limit per tool strikes me as a rational policy response to over-spending, and much more sensible than those tokenmaxxing leaderboards encouraging employees to compete for as much AI usage as possible." "If we assume two actively used tools per engineer that's $3,000 * 12 = $36,000 cap per engineer per year... That means each employee's AI spending cap is ~11% of that median compensation package."

datasette-agent-micropython 0.1a0

Simon Willison · 2026-06-02 · 1 min read

"I want Datasette Agent to be able to generate and execute Python code safely." "GPT-5.5 has so far failed to break out of the sandbox!"

You Don't Get to Create Anything

Kent Beck · 2026-06-03 · 1 min read

"Kent and Randy dig into what it means to need to make things, why the people who wrote the original distributed systems playbook aren't panicking about AI wiping it clean, and how Jevons paradox explains what happens when cognition gets cheap."