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Meta's Mosseri predicts AI token budgets may be capped per engineer within two years
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Meta's Mosseri predicts AI token budgets may be capped per engineer within two years
Instagram head Adam Mosseri said Meta may impose caps on employees' AI token usage to manage soaring costs.
- Mosseri stated that within a year or two, the burn rate of a strong engineer on AI tokens could match their salary, necessitating caps.
- Meta shut down an internal AI token spend leaderboard after AI costs put the company on track for billions in 2026.
- Uber blew through its 2026 AI coding budget by April, prompting a rethink of AI experimentation.
- Soaring token costs led Microsoft to cancel Claude Code licenses and consolidate engineers around its own Copilot CLI tool.
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