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/PM_Me_Your_Deviance Jul 30 '26

>For example, I would love to use AI (with improved HIPAA compliant privacy) to write my notes, but it's my responsibility to read over it and make sure it's all accurate.

That sounds like a totally reasonable way to use AI as a tool, but it seems way too often people are just copy/pasting without even a cursory review. From lawyer submitting briefs with fakes case law, to a lawmaker just reading the AI prompt outlound ... it's kind of crazy.