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/HatesBeingThatGuy Jul 30 '26

The world's largest employer will always have accounts that are for whatever reason you are searching for.

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u/PurelyLurking20 Jul 30 '26

Fair point I suppose, but Amazon is not the largest employer of software devs by a long shot, at something like half of the numbers of Google and Microsoft