Meta Kills Its Token Leaderboard After Staff Burn 73.7 Trillion in a Month (mlq.ai)
Meta employees burned 73.7 trillion tokens in roughly a month, putting the company on track for billions in 2026 AI costs. An internal leaderboard nicknamed Claudeonomics had turned raw token consumption into a staff ranking.
Meta is scrapping the board and pushing devs toward its own MetaCode, with formal budgets due in 2027. The thread's twist: one commenter says the leaderboard was never a mandate but a rogue side project some engineer built for fun.
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