Zuckerberg · Fortune Technology
A Meta employee published a dashboard so coworkers can compete to be the company's No. 1 AI token user—and Zuckerberg doesn't even rank in the top 250
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- Days later, Huang said he would be “deeply alarmed” if an engineer he paid $500,000 a year didn’t use at least $250,000 worth of tokens
- In a 30-day period, total employee usage on the dashboard exceeded 60 trillion tokens, and the highest-ranked individual user averaged 281 billion tokens
- Last year, Meta’s Chief People Officer Janelle Gale told employees that “AI-driven impact” would be a “core expectation” in 2026, according to Business Insider
- Meta CTO Bosworth said his best engineer is spending the equivalent of his salary in tokens, but he’s “5x to 10x more productive
Summary
A Meta employee independently created a leaderboard that tracked how many tokens—the basic units of data or words that AI models process—the company’s more than 85,000 employees used, The Information reported on Monday. The leaderboard encouraged “tokenmaing,” a growing phenomenon in Silicon Valley which emphasizes token usage as a measure of productivity. But now, the fun is over: the internal AI-use leaderboard went down two days after the news broke. The dashboard now reads: “We’ve enjoyed building this app on Nest for everyone. “The employee took down the dashboard at their discretion; Meta did not request this action,” Meta told Fortune in a statement.