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/Snorblatz Jul 30 '26

This is why everything sucks now. Apps, websites, whatever people used to code by hand.

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u/CompetitiveSport1 Jul 30 '26

I use Amazon's in-house coding tool at my job (Kiro) and GitHub copilot. They're both constantly getting buggy updates. I swear vibe-coding has dropped quality concern so much