{"slug": "anthropic-s-president-weighs-in-on-the-tokenmaxxing-debate", "title": "Anthropic's president weighs in on the tokenmaxxing debate", "summary": "Anthropic president Daniela Amodei addressed the tokenmaxxing debate at a Bloomberg Tech conference on Thursday, stating that AI models still have significant room for improvement over the next two to eight years. Amodei acknowledged the pressure workers feel to use AI tools but expressed hope that AI will become more naturally integrated into daily work, creating greater value. She confirmed that Anthropic does not maintain a token-usage leaderboard, unlike Amazon and Meta, which recently shut down or removed similar employee-made tracking systems.", "body_md": "[Daniela Amodei](https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-president-ai-humanities-majors-more-important-2026-2) has entered the tokenmaxxing discourse in Silicon Valley — and no, [Anthropic](https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ipo-filing-wall-street-analysts-investors-reactions-2026-6) does not have an AI leaderboard.\n\nAt Thursday's Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, the Anthropic president and co-founder took a question about [tokenmaxxing](https://www.businessinsider.com/tokenmaxxing-debate-uber-exec-viral-ai-costs-2026-5), where developers use as much AI as possible and rack up huge bills with unclear business payoffs.\n\nAmodei was diplomatic, but offered a bullish vision.\n\nShe said that though AI models have dramatically improved over the last two years, this isn't the end state of their progress.\n\n\"I actually think there's a lot more distance to go still for what the models will be able to do two to four, six to eight years in the future,\" Amodei said.\n\nThe executive also said businesses will find [new ways to use the tools](https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-expands-legal-ai-tools-claude-cowork-2026-5), and learn together as a larger community.\n\nShe acknowledged that workers are reckoning with a new paradigm, where they're directed to use AI and sometimes even [tracked by their employers](https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-use-tracking-jpmorgan-meta-kpmg-employees-tokenmaxxing-2026-5).\n\n\"Today there's this feeling that's like, 'Oh, like AI, you know, the leaderboards, and it's like I have to use it, and what am I going to use it for?'\" Amodei said. \"My hope is that over time it'll be more incorporated into the day-to-day of how humans do our work, how we communicate together, and that there will actually be a lot more value realized in a way that feels really good to people.\"\n\nAnthropic does not have a token-usage leaderboard, she noted, though the company does track general use of the company's Claude products as teams work.\n\n\"But there's not like, 'You must use AI and you must use Claude',\" she added.\n\n[Claude Code](https://www.businessinsider.com/claude-code-creator-boris-cherny-vibe-coding-anthropic-ai-2026-5), Anthropic's juggernaut AI-coding product, is one of the main drivers of the tokenmaxxing discourse.\n\nThe tool uses significantly more tokens — the units of AI input and output — than a classic chatbot interface. That gap grew more substantial with the advent of agents, which a user can direct to autonomously churn through tasks. Anthropic and OpenAI partly charge on a per-token basis, so the boom in AI coding has fueled a surge in revenue.\n\nCompanies are navigating how to spend on AI, after some executives at top companies encouraged a freewheeling attitude. Amazon recently [shut down](https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ai-leaderboard-tokenmaxxing-2026-5) an informal, employee-made leaderboard that tracked the use of AI tokens.\n\n\"Please don't use AI just for the sake of using AI,\" Dave Treadwell, an Amazon senior vice president, told staff.\n\nA similar leaderboard at Meta was taken down by the employee who made it, [The Information](https://affiliate.insider.com/?h=9b2efc40e4b2fbd0b583c40676c72c89652b55e17c76738ffe747298415160da&platform=browser&postID=6a21b3f2bbf03e9fa44d0bc2&postSlug=anthropic-president-daniela-amodei-tokenmaxxing-ai-coding-claude-code-2026-6&tags=service%3Acapi&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theinformation.com%2Fbriefings%2F1d853c%3Frc%3Drlufcw) reported. It had been titled \"Claudeonomics.\"\n\n*Have a tip? Contact this reporter via email at **scouncil@insider.com**, or over text, Signal, Telegram, or WhatsApp at 415-757-8198. 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