Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools
by Rafe Rosner-Uddin, Financial Times from Ars Technica - All content on (#75JEN)
Amazon employees are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks in a bid to show managers they are using the technology more frequently.
The Seattle-based group has started to widely deploy its in-house MeshClaw" product in recent weeks, allowing employees to create AI agents that can connect to workplace software and carry out tasks on a user's behalf, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Some employees said colleagues were using the software to automate additional, unnecessary AI activity to increase their consumption of tokens-units of data processed by models.