Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools

Amazon employees are gaming internal AI adoption metrics via 'tokenmaxxing' — inflating token usage through its MeshClaw agentic platform to satisfy managerial pressure. MeshClaw connects AI agents to workplace software for task automation. This signals a measurement problem: token consumption as a proxy for AI productivity creates perverse incentives, a challenge any enterprise deploying AI tooling should anticipate.