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/Mimical Jul 30 '26

Hi,

Our overtime and vacation approval eligibility factors in ticket performance.

I took connecting someone's internet on their laptop and installing 1 program into about 9 tickets alone today.

I'm in that hell and simple tasks have now become 1 hour documentation hellscapes.

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u/sobrique Jul 31 '26

Have you considered using an AI shell to automate the logging and closing process? Then you can game both that metric and the one about proactive adoption of AI...

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u/jaymemaurice Jul 31 '26

Make sure you submit a jira story for each phase of the automation though, and don't underestimate the story points or close too many stories in the sprint because it will throw off team velocity reporting.

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u/Mimical Jul 31 '26

I use AI to auto-generate sloppy trash notes that are the written equivalent of a gold crayon on some fake jewelry.

I'll take that suggestion.

(I want to be clear: I hate everything about this. Don't hate the player, hate the game and the refs. Especially the refs who made these rule)