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Amazon tells engineers to stop ‘tokenmaxxing’ to look productive — says AI will be central to software development, but usage is not the goal, new guidelines claim

The biting irony of this article is that it was produced using AI. The previously submitted article refers to senior devs as meat proxies. As a software developer for 35 years, I'm not sure where to go with all of this. 😂

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  1. 2026-10-30 15:30 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    Amazon tells engineers to stop ‘tokenmaxxing’ to look productive — says AI will be central to software development, but usage is not the goal, new guidelines claim

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