Meta has laid off thousands of workers as part of its plan to transition to artificial intelligence (AI). The company reportedly relied on several standards to select employees for layoffs, including performance evaluations, department restructuring, and AI initiatives, with internal experimentation around AI usage metrics reportedly influencing engineering output assessments.
Part of that process included the short-lived leaderboard called Claudeonomics, allegedly created by an employee. The internal leaderboard, which reportedly ran from March, was also known as tokenmaxxing—a system that encouraged engineers to consume as many AI tokens as possible.
