Um.. is this Uber?
this post was submitted on 29 May 2026
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Could be. OP's article mentions Uber, but also mentions speculation that it may have been Amazon. Either way, I'm torn between laughing at corporate stupidity and crying over the enormous waste of resources consumed by the AI usage.
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. In fact, a Financial Times report on Thursday indicates Amazon has scrapped its internal AI usage leaderboard to stop employees carrying out needless tasks in order to climb the league table.
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Either I have some inside knowledge of that exact thing happening and I know the company (not saying who) or this is probably a common things that happened to a lot of major companies (more likely). To be fair, I do not have privy on how far it went and how much it cost before they realize the problem, and it may not have been this much. Which further suggests it's a thing everywhere.
Microsoft recently said that they were revoking Claude Code access for employees in favour of GitHub Copilot CLI, wonder if it was them lol
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I'm sure they got good value for their money. /s They should have put all that money towards wages though.
