Microsoft just banned its own engineers from using AI.
The tool was literally costing MORE than the humans it was supposed to replace.
They lied to you about AI adoption and now the whole narrative is blowing up:
Microsoft gave thousands of engineers access to Claude Code six months ago and encouraged them to use it.
Engineers loved it and adoption exploded. But then the invoices arrived.
Token-based pricing means every query, every code review, every debugging session costs money. At scale across 100,000 engineers, the numbers became so large that Microsoft issued an internal order to cancel nearly all Claude Code licenses by end of June and force everyone onto their own cheaper tool instead.
The company that invested $5 billion in Anthropic just told its own people to stop using Anthropic's product because it costs too much.
Uber's story is even worse...
Their CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga told The Information that the budget he planned for the full year was "blown away already" by April.
Uber had rolled out Claude Code in December 2025. By March, 84% of their 5,000 engineers were using it with 70% of all committed code coming from AI systems.
Heavy users were burning $500 to $2,000 per month each. Naga himself spent $1,200 in a single two-hour demo session.
The company had even built internal leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used. They literally gamified the spending and then ran out of money.
Now look at what Nvidia's own VP of applied deep learning Bryan Catanzaro said to Axios last month. Direct quote:
"For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees."
This is a VP at the company that SELLS the chips saying that using AI is more expensive than paying humans.
Think about what this means for the entire AI narrative.
Every CEO on every earnings call for the past two years has said the same thing:
AI will make us more efficient, reduce headcount, and cut costs.
The stock market rewarded every company that said it.
Fired workers, stock goes up. Announced AI adoption, stock goes up.
But the actual companies deploying AI at scale are discovering the math doesn't work. The MORE employees use AI, the HIGHER the bill.
Goldman Sachs forecasts a 24x increase in token consumption by 2030 as companies adopt AI agents. Gartner just published a report showing that even though individual token prices will drop 90% by 2030, total enterprise AI costs will go UP because agents consume exponentially more tokens per task than basic tools.
Meta built an internal dashboard called "Claudeonomics" to track which employees use the most AI. Amazon started pushing engineers to "tokenmaxx," their internal term for consuming as many AI tokens as possible.
Both companies are spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure this year alone.
And Microsoft, the company that bet its entire future on AI, just told 100,000 engineers to stop using the tool they liked best because the per-token bills got out of control.
The companies building AI are telling investors it saves money. The companies using AI are finding out it costs more than the humans it was supposed to replace. And even the company that makes the chips just admitted it through its own VP.
This is the gap nobody on Wall Street is pricing in.
$725 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year across Big Tech. And the first companies to actually deploy these tools at scale are already pulling back because the economics don't work.
What do you think?
Ali Abdaal just dropped his Claude Code workflow.
And I think this is the most beginner-friendly breakdown anyone has published.
Most Claude Code tutorials are made by engineers for engineers.
Terminal commands.
API keys.
Technical jargon that loses you in the first 60 seconds.
Ali starts from zero.
INSTEAD OF WATCHING NETFLIX TONIGHT.
Spend 10 minutes with this.
Claude engineers earn $500,000 a year to understand how Claude Code actually works.
One of Anthropic's core contributors just shared everything they use internally.
Most developers are running Claude Code at 20% of its potential.
Here is the other 80%.
THE CLAUDE.md FILE IS EVERYTHING
Drop it in your working directory and it loads into every single session automatically.
Your context. Your conventions. Your team's entire knowledge base.
Persistent. Shareable. Checked into your repo.
Most people have never touched it.
THE PLANNING TRICK THAT SAVES HOURS
Never say "fix this bug."
Say "search around, find the cause, give me a plan, don't write any code yet."
Read the plan. Verify the approach. Then let Claude execute.
This single change will double your output this week.
THE KEY NOBODY TALKS ABOUT
Escape.
Press it to stop Claude mid-task and redirect.
Press it TWICE to jump back in conversation history and reset.
The people shipping 10x faster are not smarter.
They just know when to press Enter and when to press Escape.
THE MOVE POWER USERS AT ANTHROPIC ACTUALLY MAKE
They run 4 Claude Code instances simultaneously.
Agents talking to each other through shared markdown files.
Writing state to ticket.md and firing up a second Claude to read it.
Most people are using one tab.
Stop treating Claude Code as an autocomplete tool.
Start treating it as a junior engineer you are actively managing.
Plan together. Review the approach. Watch the work. Redirect when needed.
The gap between where you are and where you could be is not talent.
It is 10 minutes of reading this thread tonight.
Follow @cyrilXBT for the exact Claude Code systems, workflows, and prompts I use to ship faster than teams of 6.
ANTHROPIC JUST DROPPED 13 FREE CLAUDE CERTIFICATIONS AND ALMOST NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT IT.
Not a YouTube playlist.
Not a third-party course.
Official certifications from the team that built Claude.
Free. Forever.
Here is the full list with links:
START HERE
01. Claude 101 — Learn Claude for everyday work
https://t.co/nuKRe4nIQQ
02. AI Fluency: Frameworks and Foundations
https://t.co/ZCq5bBvfCJ
03. Introduction to Agent Skills
https://t.co/vO8GjPWa0u…
FOR DEVELOPERS
04. Building with the Claude API
https://t.co/e9e3OhXagj
05. Claude Code in Action
https://t.co/S1Qqax2ZoJ
06. Intro to Model Context Protocol
https://t.co/X3PX8lCken
07. MCP Advanced Topics
https://t.co/T6zpObreAg
FOR EDUCATION AND NONPROFITS
08. AI Fluency for Students
09. AI Fluency for Educators
10. Teaching AI Fluency
11. AI Fluency for Nonprofits
FOR ENTERPRISE
12. Claude with Amazon Bedrock
13. Claude with Google Cloud Vertex AI
13 courses. 6 skill levels. 5 audiences. 100% free forever.
The engineers getting hired at $150,000 to $300,000 to work with Claude at the highest level are learning exactly this material.
Anthropic's team just made it available to everyone.
Pro tip: Start with Claude 101 then go straight to Claude Code in Action. That is the fastest path from beginner to builder.
Bookmark this before you pay for another AI course.
Follow @ai_rohitt for every Anthropic resource that compounds your skills the moment it drops.
INSTEAD OF WATCHING NETFLIX TONIGHT.
Spend 2 hour with this.
Claude AI FULL COURSE that teaches you how to BUILD and AUTOMATE anything.
Watch it and Bookmark it now.
OpenAI just recreated Samantha from the movie "Her"
This means we can finally have agents that do computer work as we talk to them in real time.
Imagine the world when your agent creates thousands of versions of itself, each with its own @orgo computer...
That's the future, and we're living it today.