Source: Meta shutters Claudeonomics, an internal, employee-built leaderboard tracking each employee's token usage, due to the data “being shared externally”
The Information Jyoti Mann
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Discussion
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@jonchu
@jonchu
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Plenty of my Meta friends told me folks have been building bots that just run in a loop burning tokens as fast as they can due to this policy. It's an absolutely stupid policy and is similar to how Meta uses LoC to measure eng output. Managers are supposed to use it as a proxy …
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@provisionalidea
James Rosen-Birch
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FB leadership thinks the problem here is that the leaderboard got shared externally, not that “spend as many tokens as possible” is not a good target to give people
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@paularambles
@paularambles
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they laid off claude [image]
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@metapreston
Preston
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Never do leaderboards. On games, apps, or internal dashboards. Truly zero-sum with no upside
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@mikeisaac
Rat King
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@paularambles slightly bummed i didn't get a “as first tweeted by rat king” citation
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@jyoti_mann1
Jyoti Mann
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New: Meta has taken down its internal AI token leaderboard. It now displays a message that says: “It was meant to be a fun way for people to look at tokens, but due to data from the dashboard being shared externally, we've made the decision to shutter Claudeonomics for now.”
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@tbpn
@tbpn
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.@johncoogan says the recent reporting on Meta's ‘tokenmaxxing’ is less of a sign of bad incentives at the company, and more of a tell about its potential strategy for more vertical integration: “I think it makes clearer the strategy with MSL. Because it's clear that they're [vid…
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@sidharth_raja
Sidharth Raja
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Hearing the same from Meta friends. As bad as LOCs were, they were still somewhat auditable. If you committed 100k lines of bloated nonsense, your peers saw this, and thought less of you. It's also part of your commit history and reputation forever. OTOH token usage is an
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@mikeisaac
Rat King
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@kevinroose ...annnnd the “claudenomics” dashboard inside meta has been taken down, im told unclear to me if this was a homespun one by employees or an official one. (employee projects come and go frequently) conspicuous timing though...
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@gergelyorosz
Gergely Orosz
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Inside Microsoft it's the same silly games and incredible token waste for nothing. There's just not been as extensive reporting on it like at Meta (I talked with devs at both companies to confirm all of these as usual)
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@hussain_joe
@hussain_joe
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@GergelyOrosz My Question is before Meta removed the leaderboard. How did no one at Meta see this as WASTE.
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@gergelyorosz
Gergely Orosz
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Devs game everything and anything seen as a target for more bonus or promos. This was no different. Talked w devs at Meta and this was SO MUCH waste - just to get on the leaderboard!! Meta removed the leaderboard now. Source: me (Next up I expect to do the same: Microsoft)
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r/BetterOffline
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Meta closes Claudeonomics token burn leaderboard