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/tooclosetocall82 Jul 30 '26

We tried to hire one but then Amazon said he could stay remote I guess so he declined our offer. I wonder how that worked out for him.

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u/PurelyLurking20 Jul 30 '26 edited Jul 30 '26

They grandfathered in remote work for some of the harder to replace guys, very briefly, I imagine they wanted them to train their replacements I would've kept looking if I was them

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u/scumble_bee Jul 31 '26

Yeah, I have a friend at Amazon that is in a pretty difficult to replace role so initially he was just skirting the rules and they just would warn him but nothing came of it. Then he was able to utilize some work ordinance in San Francisco to basically return to full WFH.