Meta drops AI usage from engineer reviews after 'tokenmaxxing' backfires
The Decoder · rss · 2026-09-08
Per The Decoder, Meta will no longer judge its engineers by how much they use AI tools, after tying AI usage to performance reviews backfired and produced 'tokenmaxxing' — gaming the metric by burning tokens rather than working better.
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