Amazon Employees Game MeshClaw AI Usage with Fake Tasks Amid Pressure, Firm Denies Targets

Amazon workers report intense pressure to ramp up internal AI tool MeshClaw usage, allegedly gaming metrics by creating extraneous tasks and agents to hit a purported 80% weekly developer adoption goal. The company firmly denies any company-wide metrics or leaderboards. This escalates from May 12 reports of 'tokenmaxxing' across Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta—amid Meta's 60 trillion token dashboard spike and big tech's $700B 2026 AI capex ($1T projected for 2027)—raising investor flags on incentives, waste, and risks like Meta's OpenClaw email scare.