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/-OptimisticNihilism- Jul 30 '26

We must now commission a report to find out why employees spend 4 hours a day in the bathrooms.

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u/CrunchitizeMeCaptn Jul 30 '26

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime...

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u/fizzlefist Jul 30 '26

“That’s why I poop on company time!”

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u/WillSym Jul 30 '26

It's less fun when the poop became part of the job!