AgentsView, built by Wes McKinney, visualizes token usage and costs across local coding agents. When Claude Fable 5 launched without being listed in AgentsView's pricing database, Simon Willison used Fable itself to reverse-engineer the tool and find a recipe for setting custom prices. He also shared a treemap showing over $83 in single-day Fable 5 spending and $516 saved via prompt caching.
Uber has reportedly capped employee token spending at $1,500 per month for each agentic AI coding tool, including Cursor and Claude Code. Simon Willison frames this as a rational response to overspending, especially after earlier discussion that Uber exhausted its 2026 AI budget in four months. He estimates that two actively used tools would imply a $36,000 annual cap per engineer, about 11% of median US Uber software engineer compensation.
Google officially unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash at its 2026 I/O conference. Unlike previous launches, this new model skipped the `-preview` stage and went directly…