Re:Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months
by pretzel5297 on Friday May 01, 2026 @03:59PM
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> If you can shave off an hour of dev time with $40 in LLM credits, that's $26.50 cheaper than having them do it without.
This assumes that that hour shaved was used elsewhere productively which is not the case.
Re:Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months
by everforward on Friday May 01, 2026 @04:34PM
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Yeah, that's part of why I said I'm not entirely convinced. 1 hours vs 2 hours is an unrealistic example. I do still think it can make sense, but the extra actual productivity is probably more in the vein of "getting an extra hour on a 10 or 20 hour project".
I'm not entirely convinced it works out that way so far, but that's the theory.
Trying to bring down LLM costs is sort of a double-edged sword, because the dev needs to be cutting LLM costs by more than what you're paying them. If it takes them a day to bring costs down by $1 an invocation, then it takes almost 2 years to recoup the salary costs. It's worse because LLMs currently change so much I wouldn't be confident that their solution won't be broken before the 2 year period. Will we still be tool calling in 2 years, or will that be something new? Will thinking still be a thing, or will it be superceded by something else? I don't think anyone knows, even the frontier providers.