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6/1/2026 at 5:31:57 PM

Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated

 https://www.404media.co/amazon-shuts-down-internal-ai-leaderboard-after-employees-cheated/

by cdrnsf

6/1/2026 at 8:08:05 PM

I give it 2 days before ours is shutdown. Just enough time for this to get on linkedin and make the rounds.

I'm sure this was obvious to anyone who would sit down and think about it for more than the 30min it took to vibe code the leaderboard.

I just really dislike this follow whatever FAANG is doing pattern that the C-Suite have adopted with such urgency. Maybe this is just my age showing but I remember folks used to say "well we aren't facebook/google/amazon and what works for them might not work for our industry, we have to think this through".

by daheza

6/1/2026 at 6:46:55 PM

LOL, reminds me of when we had bonuses tied to test coverage at a company and one enterprising dev wrote a single test that flagged as 100% coverage.

by jeffwask

6/1/2026 at 6:57:13 PM

I'm also bummed. My company shutdown the money burning pit due to fire safety concerns

by kbcool

6/1/2026 at 5:41:57 PM

Hopefully they promoted the cheaters - those are the folks showing drive, initiative, and the will to win.

by _doctor_love

6/1/2026 at 5:46:47 PM

Shouldn't have made it a game if they didn't want people to make use of the new rules.

by daveshistory

6/1/2026 at 6:38:22 PM

Exactly - hate the game, not the player!

by _doctor_love

6/1/2026 at 11:08:04 PM

Good time for Anthropic and crew to make their public filings before the token fires get extinguished.

by 0cf8612b2e1e

6/1/2026 at 5:46:10 PM

I can think of few better examples of why a new "service" is not actually servicing, than that management has to gamify its adoption.

by daveshistory