Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools
Workers are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/amazon-employees-are-tokenmaxxing-due-to-pressure-to-use-ai-tools/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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@arstechnica God this is sooooooo stupid
@arstechnica Goodhart strikes again
@arstechnica (not just at Amazon)
Everywhere with an ai use metric… that will lead to prioritizing use over outcomes.
@arstechnica
This is no different than Musk selling his CyberSlop to SpaceX because no one else will buy his hot garbage. And lets be blunt there are a ton of companies pushing this as well, even though practical experience is showing it doesn't speed things up. I've spent so much time resubmitting request after request to a LLM that in many cases it would be simpler and faster to just go to an subject matter expert to have them answer my question or help me write a script. And this is NOT a one off. I legit waste an hour a day x 5 days x 4 weeks being forced to use a LLM's.
@arstechnica if you need to force people to use your new technologie its not that amazing. Sad world we live in.
