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As companies rethink AI ROI, Replit's AI chief calls token leaderboards 'very dystopian'
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Replit's AI chief Michele Catasta said "tokenmaxxing" is "irresponsible" and a poor measure of employee performance.
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2026-06-10T11:00:41.886Z
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Employees competing to consume the most AI tokens may have been Silicon Valley's latest workplace flex. Now, some executives are pushing back.
Speaking at Web Summit Rio this week, Michele Catasta, Replit's president and head of AI, criticized the recent trend of companies using leaderboards to rank employees based on how many
AI tokens
they use at work.
He said some firms have built
internal dashboards
where "people are basically competing to be at the top of the ranking and showing everyone that they're burning more tokens than anyone else."
"That is very dystopian," he said.
The 'tokenmaxxing' backlash
The comments come as a growing number of executives question whether maximizing AI usage is the right way to measure adoption.
Last month, Amazon said it scrapped its internal
AI-use leaderboard
, with a spokesperson saying it "was never intended to promote the use of AI for usage's sake."
Around the same time, Uber COO Andrew Macdonald said he was not seeing proportional productivity gains from increasing
AI costs
.
Charles Holive, chief AI officer at BNP Paribas CIB, similarly dismissed "tokenmaxxing" as a "
vanity metric
."
Catasta said that token consumption is a poor measure of empl
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