Amazon kills internal AI leaderboard after employees gamed it with pointless tasks

Amazon shut down its internal Kiro AI leaderboard after employees gamed it with trivial AI tasks.

The company said the ranking encouraged pointless activity and drove up cloud costs without improving productivity.

Amazon is replacing raw usage metrics with normalized deployments that better reflect useful AI-generated code.

The move highlights a broader risk: AI incentives can be easily manipulated and backfire.