Posts tagged with: AI ROI

Tokenmaxxing: Amazon Built an AI Leaderboard and Employees Strapped It to the Dog

Amazon shut down its KiroRank AI leaderboard after employees gamed it with pointless tasks. Uber blew its 2026 AI budget in four months. Microsoft cancelled Claude Code subscriptions. For every $1 spent on AI tokens, $0.44 goes to fixing bugs the AI created. Welcome to tokenmaxxing — the corporate fitness tracker fiasco of software engineering.