> Recently, Uber's chief exec claimed there was no link between AI 'tokenmaxxing' and shipping useful products. It's a phenomenon perhaps most keenly reported at Amazon (which some X users have speculated may be the mystery company in question), where employees are said to have been caught inflating AI token consumption to meet internal targets.

So it's Amazon?

Wild. At my company, we have an internal LLM proxy to the frontier models, and once you exceed 2k in a day your access is disabled.

Isn't that going to eventually be another useless metric to be wrongly interpreted to fire the top workers and keep the middlings?

Sure. We’ll always have useless metrics like this. At least token count is game-able at this stage.

Related: https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/ai-spending-roi-enterprise-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48307098

Was it uber?