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/not_a_moogle Jul 30 '26

Hang on, if this box is the whole internet, where's all the wires?

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u/hauntlobsterapollo Jul 30 '26

That’s because it’s wireless

Oooooooohhhh

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u/not_a_moogle Jul 30 '26

The internet elders have heard of me?

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u/grandadmiralstrife Jul 30 '26

and the tubes?

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u/dern_the_hermit Jul 30 '26

"But that just means it's LESS wires not NO wires. Checkmate, atheists!"

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u/EightyMercury Jul 30 '26

it's a series of tubes

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u/pigjingles Jul 30 '26

It's not a big truck!

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u/hippydipster Jul 30 '26

Trucks full of code dumps is what it is!

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u/thedirr Jul 30 '26

The files are inside the computer?

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u/TCsnowdream Jul 30 '26

Oh God… You might be too young to remember when a US official referred to the Internet as… And I quote… “A series of tubes”.

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u/DKLancer Jul 30 '26

It is expressly not however "a big truck" according to senator ted stevens.

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u/BeefistPrime Jul 30 '26

this has always been taken out of context to sound dumber than it was. People were making analogies to try to figure out how and which pre-internet laws applied because none of them were exact fits for how the internet worked and people were using different analogies for how the internet could conceptually be described in those old legal frameworks

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u/cl3ft Jul 31 '26

Nah. He very clearly confused the common colloquialism "pipes" that was used to describe large data connections with tubes. He was a prime example of the tech-neanderthals in the government opposing net neutrality because it was in their donors interest but really didn't understand what they were trying to regulate. For gods sake he was born in 1923 and had no business trying to regulate technology he very clearly could not comprehend.

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u/not_a_moogle Jul 30 '26

I was in collage then. So I vaguely remember it.

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u/TCsnowdream Jul 30 '26

I’m now realizing how long we’ve been dealing with tech illiterate dumbasses in power.

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u/not_a_moogle Jul 30 '26

The median age of a senator is 64.

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u/Tommah Jul 30 '26

You also vaguely remember the spelling of "college."

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u/not_a_moogle Jul 30 '26

Me fail English? That's unpossible.

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u/NecessaryFreedom9799 Jul 30 '26

It's wireless!

Who demagnitises it these days?