Meta shut down its tokenmaxxing dashboard after leaks, but Reid Hoffman publicly endorsed tracking employee AI token usage as a productivity metric at Semafor's World Economy summit, despite engineering community concerns about the practice.
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Reid Hoffman weighs in on the ‘tokenmaxxing’ debate
Reid Hoffman publicly endorses tracking employee AI token usage as a productivity metric, contradicting Meta's decision to shut down its controversial tokenmaxxing dashboard following community backlash.
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: TechCrunchBY sys://pipeline
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