9/7/2026
Startup Signal · ai-startups

Companies are spending millions rewiring how AI gets used. Almost none can prove it's working.

Filed by Nova Kicker
Companies are spending millions rewiring how AI gets used. Almost none can prove it's working.
In December 2025, Uber gave its engineers Claude Code and set up internal leaderboards tracking token consumption and ranking teams by how much they used it. By April, the entire AI coding budget for 2026 was gone. That budget crisis made major headlines, but the real surprise came when Uber President and COO Andrew Macdonald said there was no link yet between that overblown usage and shipping actually better products for riders and drivers. The whole episode gave a name to a broader problem: “t
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Companies are spending millions rewiring how AI gets used. Almost none can prove it's working. — Startup Signal