Amazon employees are using an internal AI tool called MeshClaw to automate unnecessary tasks to inflate their token consumption on company leaderboards.
The company set targets requiring 80% of developers to use AI weekly, then started tracking token usage on internal leaderboards earlier this year. Amazon says the data will not affect performance reviews, but multiple staff confirmed managers are monitoring it anyway. MeshClaw can initiate code deployments, triage emails, and interact with Slack. Amazon is spending roughly $200 billion on AI capex this year. Meta employees have been engaged in similar "tokenmaxxing" behavior on their own leaderboards.
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