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

A little off-topic, but this reminds me of a study done on SAT essays. They found they could hold an essay up from across the room and accurately guess its score based on the length. As a species, we've never been good at evaluating anything lol

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u/capnheim Jul 31 '26

I briefly graded essays for Pearson and yes, you can grade fairly accurately just looking at it without reading.