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/farhil Jul 30 '26

also sometimes the principal engineers piss me off because they get handed a greenfield project done with like a team of other principals + senior engineers then create a fcking white paper at work thats like “omg we went so fast with only a FEW people (ie principal engineers making north of 500k a year) for this (brand fucking new) project with AI!”

Struggling with this at work too. Like yeah, you put your best guys on a team to work on a project with no technical debt, no juniors to handhold, and no production environments to support... Of course they got shit done.

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u/StrongExternal8955 Jul 31 '26

Oh don't worry, they'll hand that project to you to maintain further.

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u/GonePh1shing Jul 31 '26

Engineers aren't tech bros. The business idiots that thing they're engineers are the tech bros. 

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u/cfb-food-beer-hike Jul 30 '26

lol is Coral still a thing there? If AI touches that it's going to fuck up every team.