Meta executive Adam Mosseri said AI token costs for engineers could match their salaries within two years, requiring spending caps. Meta already shut down an internal token spend leaderboard after costs projected toward billions. Uber exceeded its 2026 AI coding budget by April, and Microsoft canceled Claude Code licenses in favor of Copilot CLI. Mosseri compared token budgets to payroll and OpEx, noting Meta currently has no caps but expects costs to decline.
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