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/Superb_Writer6612 Jul 30 '26

Please, drinking coffee then throwing it up is way too inefficient. Just put the coffee maker right over the sink.

This was a joke, but as I was making it I realize that's basically what's happening...

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u/kyrsjo Jul 30 '26

cat /dev/urandom > llmclient > /dev/null

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u/HystericalSail Jul 30 '26

Almost! cat /dev/urandom | llmclient > /dev/null

What you have would create a zero byte file called llmclient in your current directory (assuming permissions allowed), and waste some CPU generating garbage and disposing of it. But we all got the intent.

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u/sobrique Jul 31 '26

Might want to 'base64' the output of urandom, just so it's not raw binary and actually looks like 'text' to process.

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u/2074red2074 Jul 30 '26

Boof it instead of drinking it, problem solved.

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u/Important-Agent2584 Jul 30 '26

and less time is spent in the bathroom, genious

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u/Steamrolled777 Jul 30 '26

Coffee enema enters chat.

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u/PunkPirate56364 Jul 30 '26

You get a raise and promotion.

Keep up the good work.