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Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated (www.404media.co)
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Amazon has shut down an internal company leaderboard which ranked employees based on how much they used AI tools at work.

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[–] 52 points 2 months ago (2 children)

A friend of my worked at a company where they had metrics on Claude code usage and some employees just started multiple agents on the same project where one was tasked to implement a feature and the other was tasked to remove that same feature...

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    The neat thing is you don't even need AI for that!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Look mom, I found the infinite productivity glitch. Production hit infinity% thanks to copy pasta!

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Reminds me of an old story where a pizza place held a competition among the employees, to see which cashier could convince the most people to upgrade their medium pizzas to a large. The POS system was set to track whenever a medium was upgraded, and would award the cashier one point. The employee with the most points each week won something like free movie tickets.

    Employees would put on their best salesmen pitches, trying to get customers to upgrade their medium orders to larges. But one cashier always won, pretty much without exception. He was going to see a new movie every week for free. And he didn’t even seem to be trying.

    His trick was that whenever a customer ordered a large, he would just put it in as a medium and then immediately upgrade it. It gave him the point for the upgrade, with zero actual sales effort on his part. So every time he had a customer order a large, he got a point by default. Customer ordered three large pizzas? Three points. He didn’t even bother trying to convince people to upgrade their pizza sizes, because the free points from every large order were already enough to let him win every week.

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