Amazon to Employees: For the Love of God, Stop Tokenmaxxing
THE SO WHAT
Internal pushback on "tokenmaxxing" is a reminder that more prompts ≠ more value—unconstrained AI usage can quietly bloat cost and latency. Leaders should be instrumenting AI usage like any other shared resource: set budgets, define high-ROI patterns, and kill low-yield experimentation that never hardens into workflows.
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