Uber

Meta employees burned 73.7 trillion tokens in roughly a month, putting the company on track for billions in 2026 AI costs. An internal leaderboard nicknamed Claudeonomics had turned raw token consumption into a staff ranking.

Meta is scrapping the board and pushing devs toward its own MetaCode, with formal budgets due in 2027. The thread's twist: one commenter says the leaderboard was never a mandate but a rogue side project some engineer built for fun.

A former Uber engineer, a wife who won't ride alone, a rider who got a mid-trip lecture on religion: the thread filled with reasons people pay to skip the human driver. One commenter cited 400,000 Uber assault and misconduct reports from 2017–2022.

The dissent worth hearing: is engineering away every mildly uncomfortable human interaction actually a society we want? The most upvoted product idea wasn't Premier at all — it was Waymo-meets-Zipcar.