Enterprises Look Beyond Token Counts to Measure AI

Inside some of Amazon’s engineering teams this spring, the goal wasn’t to ship faster or close more tickets. Amazon employees have been using the company’s internal AI tool, MeshClaw, to delegate unnecessary tasks to AI agents to inflate their token consumption scores on internal leaderboards, the Financial Times reported . The company set targets for more than 80% of its developers to use AI each week and tracked usage through leaderboards showing token consumption.