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Amazon Memo Says Measuring AI Adoption by Token Usage Is Flawed

An internal Amazon memo, reported by CNBC, tells software engineers to be more selective about using AI and argues that judging AI adoption solely by token usage or code generation is flawed, since it encourages wasteful "tokenmaxxing."

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Oct 27, 12:15 PM techmeme.com Memo: Amazon says measuring AI adoption solely by token usage or code generation is "deeply flawed," as it discourages staff from tokenmaxxing (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
Oct 27, 11:41 AM cnbc.com Amazon's anti-tokenmaxxing memo says engineers should be pickier about using AI