Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools
2026-05-12 · Ars Technica
Amazon employees have coined the term 'tokenmaxxing' — gaming internal AI tools by submitting pointless tasks just to hit usage metrics. When your employer pressures you to use AI so hard that workers resort to busywork automation to look compliant, you've achieved peak corporate dystopia. Nothing says 'AI transformation' like employees frantically generating tokens to satisfy the algorithm gods.