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Amazon Bans Token Count as Productivity Metric
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On October 27, Amazon updated engineering guidelines stating that chasing token counts lacks productivity gains. The company warns that heavy AI usage does not automatically mean better work and calls token consumption a deeply flawed metric when disconnected from actual results. Managers must now measure long-term outcomes instead of input volume to align with frugality and simplicity principles.
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