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Amazon discontinued an internal AI leaderboard after employees drove up costs by 'tokenmaxxing' to meet usage targets

An executive ordered staff to stop deploying purposeless AI

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OPGary Marcus, MIT PhD and NYU Professor Emeritus#153Gary Marcus, MIT PhD and NYU Professor Emeritus@GARYMARCUS

@GergelyOrosz @pplsartofbiz me a month ago:

4:22 PM · May 28, 2026 View on X
QUOTE POSTwill depue#254will depue@WILLDEPUE

weird trick to make billions of dollars: your customers make internal leaderboards for who can spend more on your service, for some reason

12:00 AM · May 29, 2026 · 39.2K Views