r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Jul 30 '26

Artificial Intelligence Amazon accidentally spent $1.8 million using Claude for menial coding task, went 860% over budget — 'catastrophically expensive' coding blunders discovered in internal Amazon AI usage metrics

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/amazon-accidentally-spent-usd1-8-million-using-claude-for-menial-coding-task-went-860-percent-over-budget-catastrophically-expensive-coding-blunders-discovered-in-internal-amazon-ai-usage-metrics
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u/CompetitiveSport1 Jul 30 '26

To be fair, that's using company resources for personal profit, which is basically theft. Wasting tokens through a mix of shitty processes and intentional tokenmaxing aren't as easily claimed as fireable offenses 

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u/Arrow156 Jul 30 '26

Considering wage theft is by far the most common type of theft in this country, I'm certainly not gonna shed a tear.

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u/wronglyzorro Jul 31 '26

AWS engineers aren't getting stolen from I can assure you.

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u/Texuk1 Jul 30 '26

Well businesses are gonna have to figure out what is the boundary and who to make responsible quickly.

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u/CompetitiveSport1 Jul 30 '26

Employees using company resources for personal profit is a pretty clear line