The underwhelming results of AI performance metrics should surprise exactly no one

Somebody at Meta built an internal leaderboard called Claudeonomics. It ranked the company’s top 250 consumers of AI tokens and handed out titles like “Token Legend” and “Cache Wizard.” Engineers set agents running for hours to climb it. In one thirty-day stretch, employees on the dashboard burned through more than 60 trillion tokens. Meanwhile, a Disney employee reportedly interacted with an AI assistant 460,000 times in nine days. JPMorgan, KPMG, Amazon, and Accen...