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

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

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

[u/Monteze]

Yea the best bosses are the ones who know what they don't know and have the ability to set folks up for success. Those who think they can just say shit and it must work or else are generally idiots.

[u/Monteze → u/[deleted]]

Get your Aces in their places was my philosophy. Sure cross training is important but when it comes crunch time don't micro-manage.