You're a content creator; you define your revenue stream.
Uber engineers do not define their revenue stream; the product leadership team does.
$1500/mo of AI spend by engineers does not equate to revenue. They need to figure out revenue first before zeroing in on AI spend.
$18K a year is a fraction of the salary of a junior engineer.
Claude has allowed me to do refactors that would have taken weeks to instead take a couple of days. It has, objectively, increased the velocity of the engineering component of greenfield features by 40% in my org. You can put a number value on that and decide if it gives you favorable ROI.