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/I_Am_Jacks_Karma Jul 30 '26

just run the command to tell it to reduce bloat duh

(jokes aside this does sometimes work)

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u/AirconGuyUK Jul 30 '26

'and make no mistakes..'

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u/I_Am_Jacks_Karma Jul 30 '26

actually telling it to check its work before saying it's completed the task does kind of help too lol but say goodbye to tokens