When it comes to businesses jumping on the AI bandwagon, they're fallen into roughly one of three camps: Those that shun it entirely, those that use it with caution, and those that have wholeheartedly grabbed the reins and slapped the horses. In the case of Amazon, it's been very much in the lattermost category, though it's perhaps regretted being so enthusiastic about AI with its employees, now that the bills have come due.
As reported by the Financial Times (FT), Amazon has nixed the use of an internal leaderboard, which kept track of how much staff were using its own Kiro agentic AI development platform. According to FT's sources, the leaderboard ended up being somewhat spammed by users creating pointless agents (which burned through lots of tokens to run), allowing them to rise up the rankings.
In the world of AI, tokens are small chunks of data. When algorithms process text or images, they don't operate on full sentences, words, or pictures; instead, they're converted and broken down into small chunks (aka tokens), which get...
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