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Meta's Mosseri predicts AI token budgets may be capped per engineer within two years
July 14, 2026 at 04:56 PM
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.