Amazon employees are inflating AI usage to top leaderboards and impress managers
2026-05-13 · r/technology
Amazon employees are gaming AI usage leaderboards to impress their managers, because nothing says 'productive workforce' like optimizing for meaningless metrics. Turns out when you incentivize AI adoption with leaderboards, people will find creative ways to inflate their numbers instead of doing actual work. Corporate AI mandates: turning employees into professional box-checkers since 2023.