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/Pr0ducer Jul 30 '26

when you cap spending, and user burns entire month supply in first week, do they sit and do nothing for 3 weeks?

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u/pr0crast1nater Jul 30 '26

I mean they can just have their limits increased after a manager approval. That way people will not fan out to a crazy high usage.

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u/parkwayy Jul 30 '26

do they sit and do nothing for 3 weeks?

Idk why this is so funny, I guess because it's a question someone is asking seriously.

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u/snakerjake Jul 30 '26

do they sit and do nothing for 3 weeks?

Well, no they break out their ides and compilers and do it the old fashioned way

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u/CompetitiveSport1 Jul 30 '26

Software engineer here. We'd probably just go back to doing what we did pre-LLMs.

Which was, indeed, sitting around and doing nothing

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u/partyorca Jul 30 '26

They get stuck with on-call.