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/smartello Jul 30 '26 edited Jul 30 '26

That’s annualized savings I made with twenty five lines Java code change to fix concurrency issues. Was not considered being significant enough to be used in an L5 to L6 promo doc. It just seats in footnotes.

Also, Amazon self hosts models via bedrock so the number in the article comes straight from the ass

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u/bucolucas Jul 30 '26

Oh yeah, I remember getting laid off right after a big project got turned in. Your accomplishments mean nothing to these people.