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Amazon Bans Tokenmaxxing - Gamifying AI for Employees a Bad Idea

2026-06-02 Science & Technology
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Eli the Computer Guy
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Top Comments (10)

@xchazz86 2026-06-03

The fact that companies that pay to burn AI tokens didn't think this would be a massive problem just goes to show the level of incompetence in modern companies.

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@Roboprogs 2026-06-02

This really does feel like measuring developers by lines of code spewed forth.

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@nferguson82 2026-06-02

Tokenmaxxing is what happens when business idiots push AI to find a use case for a tech that has no use case. Chatbots are not actually good at much. Agents don't know how to do things. And you can't fire your employees to replace them with agents who don't know. But it is going to be fun to watch it burn.

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@Dusknore-n3w 2026-06-02

Guess they finally lost enough money from pushing out AI slop into production taking down us-east-1

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@NumaPompilious333 2026-06-02

This is SO FKNG HILARIOUS! "Do this do this!!!" [Token maxing] "WAIT !!! DON'T DO THAT!!!" [also token maxing]

23 2 replies
@BittermanAndy 2026-06-02

My question is when any of the colossally incompetent executives who pushed any of this will be held accountable for their failures.

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@seattlegrrlie 2026-06-02

I'm gonna predict the future: The next headline will be that Amazon employee "AI" usage falls off cliff. It will be under 10%

29 1 replies
@CodeNameClippy 2026-06-02

PizzaMaxxing .. 🍕 sounds good 👌

24 1 replies
@flamesintheattic 2026-06-02

"use it, but don't use it.. clear?"

9 1 replies
@briantabone2371 2026-06-02

Just imagine where we could get if leadership focused on 'outcome maxing'. Happy customers, reliable products, cost effective solutions. Oh the insanity!

25 4 replies

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