Amazon Scraps Internal AI Leaderboard 'KiroRank' After Employees Game It With Needless Agent Tasks — 63 Points

Financial Times / Hacker News·high signal

Amazon killed its internal AI usage ranking system after employees began running meaningless tasks to inflate scores — a phenomenon dubbed 'tokenmaxxing.' SVP Dave Treadwell told staff: 'Please don't use AI just for the sake of using AI.' Amazon replaced raw token consumption metrics with 'normalized deployments' tracking AI-generated code that actually ships. The episode illustrates Goodhart's Law hitting enterprise AI adoption hard. 63 points, 17 comments on HN.