alt Hacker News> What happened next was predictable in hindsight. Employees began inflating their scores through tokenmaxxing: running meaningless tasks through AI agents to consume tokens and climb the rankings.
That was predictable in foresight.
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hereticles • yesterday at 6:22 PM
It's a classic example of giving people the wrong incentive
Right? Make any metric meaningful for an employee, and they will find ways to maximize that metric. I thought this was a well-understand phenomenon.