Post by Corey Quinn on X

Amazon set weekly AI usage targets for employees, and now they're using an internal Claude clone called MeshClaw to do pointless work to hit quota. Congratulations on inventing the billable hour from first principles.

2.3K likes29 repliesPosted May 12, 2026

View the original on X Written by Corey Quinn. Captured Sep 4, 2026.

Remix this post

Your note

Private to you, and used when you remix this post.

Viral score

Based on absolute engagement — the platform doesn’t expose follower counts here, so large accounts score higher.

From likes, comments.

Why it worked

Ends on a short line that is easy to quote and repeat.
Short enough to read in full without expanding, which removes a step before the point lands.

The mechanics

Hook: Plain observation
Structure: Hook → Landing
Style: Conversational paragraphs at a steady pace.
Tone: plain, matter-of-fact
Written for: People building with AI

Analysis by ViralLoop — not written by the original author.

Topics

Posts built the same way

Attorney General Pamela Bondi

At my direction, early this morning federal agents arrested Don Lemon, Trahern Jeen Crews, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lydell Lundy, in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. More details soon.

120K likes

Ashok Kumar

For those confused why the US state and Silicon Valley are having a meltdown on twitter today. China released multiple AI models that are 50x more efficient than the best American AI models and made them open source, ruining the AI market

323K likes

Elon Musk

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.

190K likes

Sam Altman

I am very excited about AI, but to go off-script for a minute: I built an app with Codex last week. It was very fun. Then I started asking it for ideas for new features and at least a couple of them were better than I was thinking of. I felt a little useless and it was sad.

22K likes

jacksfilms

Hi! I'm one of the prompt writers that worked on this ad. It's a lot harder than people think! Prompts that my team used include: -make it funny -make it epic AND funny -funnier!!! Please be nice to my team as many of them will be laid off/replaced by AI

57K likes

Elon Musk

It’s patently absurd that Apple isn’t smart enough to make their own AI, yet is somehow capable of ensuring that OpenAI will protect your security & privacy! Apple has no clue what’s actually going on once they hand your data over to OpenAI. They’re selling you down the river.

273K likes

More from Corey Quinn

Corey Quinn

The dude though, yikes. Retained access to Apple systems post departure (great job Apple Corp Infosec; take a bow!), told other Apple folks to bring stuff with them. But no evidence yet that OpenAI as an entity sanctioned this.

189 likes

Corey Quinn

I think it's fair to say at this point that Anthropic is not a trustworthy company. I have verified this myself in 2.1.91 as well as current 2.1.197. Sneaky steganographic embeds in a ships-to-customers product is a line best not crossed.

2.4K likes

Corey Quinn

Depending how charitable you want to be, LastPass has been popped somewhere between 2-5 times. So far. They are a password manager. How on earth do they have customers at this point?

1.1K likes

Corey Quinn

Somewhere a Meta product doc says the support agent has “account modification capabilities to better assist users.” In other words it can hijack your Instagram and the only auth check is whether you typed a convincing sentence. Can’t wait for their “cloud.”

198 likes

Corey Quinn

I cannot believe I'm saying this, but getting the literal Pope to canonize your product's specific technical limitations as a spiritual treatise is the single greatest act of vendor lobbying I have ever seen.

1.1K likes

Corey Quinn

Huh. Amazon's free cash flow has collapsed by 95%, because basically every dollar in the door goes back out as concrete, GPUs, and substations. CapEX went up $59.3B. Net income was $30.3B. $16.8B of that is a pre-tax paper gain from marking up their Anthropic stake

206 likes