亚马逊员工因被迫使用人工智能工具而进行"tokenmaxxing"

2026-05-13 01:43·51天前·Bender

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亚马逊员工因公司强制使用人工智能工具而进行“tokenmaxxing”，即通过优化输入策略以最大化AI工具输出，应对绩效压力。这一行为揭示了AI技术集成到工作流程中时，员工被迫适应新系统带来的挑战，可能影响工作效率和职场动态。报道在Hacker News上获得110点关注，显示科技社区对该议题的重视。

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Amazon employees are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks in a bid to show managers they are using the technology more frequently.

The Seattle-based group has started to widely deploy its in-house “MeshClaw” product in recent weeks, allowing employees to create AI agents that can connect to workplace software and carry out tasks on a user’s behalf, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Some employees said colleagues were using the software to automate additional, unnecessary AI activity to increase their consumption of tokens—units of data processed by models.

They said the move reflected pressure to adopt the technology after Amazon introduced targets for more than 80 percent of developers to use AI each week, and earlier this year began tracking AI token consumption on internal leader boards.

“There is just so much pressure to use these tools,” one Amazon employee told the FT. “Some people are just using MeshClaw to maximize their token usage.”

Amazon has told employees that the AI token statistics would not be used in performance evaluations. But several staff members said they believed managers were monitoring the data.

“Managers are looking at it,” said another current employee. “When they track usage it creates perverse incentives and some people are very competitive about it.”

Silicon Valley groups are pushing to increase adoption of generative AI tools, as companies seek to demonstrate returns on vast spending commitments to AI infrastructure and embed the technology more deeply into day-to-day work.

Amazon this year is expected to spend $200 billion in capital expenditure, the vast majority of which will go toward AI and data center infrastructure.

The e-commerce group had posted team-wide statistics on AI usage by its staff, but recently limited access so that only employees themselves and managers can view their stats. Managers are discouraged from using token use to measure performance, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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亚马逊员工因被迫使用人工智能工具而进行"tokenmaxxing"

2026-05-13 01:43·51天前·Bender

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Amazon employees are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks in a bid to show managers they are using the technology more frequently.

Some employees said colleagues were using the software to automate additional, unnecessary AI activity to increase their consumption of tokens—units of data processed by models.