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Amazon workers are apparently 'tokenmaxxing' AI platforms to hit arbitrary usage targets

Amazon wants 80% of its developers to be using AI every single week
The company is even tracking AI token usage via internal leaderboards
Unwilling workers are using AI where it's not necessary just to inflate figures

Some Amazon employees are reportedly using the company's internal agentic AI platform, MeshClaw, to automate unnecessary or trivial parts of their work simply to boost internal AI usage metrics.

This comes as company workers are being pressured from above to use more AI – Amazon wants four in five of its developers to be using the tech weekly, and has since started tracking AI token consumption on internal leaderboards.

With workers adoption still relatively slow, many have turned to behavior described as 'tokenmaxxing' to artificially inflate their AI usage metrics, the Financial Timeshas reported.

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