Amazon employees are using an AI tool for non-essential tasks in order to show managers they are using the technology, the Financial Times reported, amid pressure on tech companies to show returns for their massive investments in AI infrastructure.
In recent weeks Amazon has been deploying its “MeshClaw” AI agent tool more widely, allowing staff to create agents that link to workplace software, such as initiating code deployments, sorting emails or reading and writing messages on Slack, the paper reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.
Some employees reportedly said colleagues were using MeshClaw to automate unnecessary tasks in order to increase their consumption of AI tokens, known informally as “tokenmaxxing”.
Competition
Amazon introduced targets for more than 80 percent of developers to use AI each week, and earlier this year began tracking token consumption on internal leader boards, putting pressure on staff to show they are complying, the report said.
