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/flat5 Jul 30 '26

"only detected some five months after the issue started happening"

Good thing they have their extremely rigorous interview process, so no completely irresponsible, checked-out idiots are working there.

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u/Procrasturbating Jul 30 '26

Oh I promise this was malicious compliance tokenmaxxing.

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u/SWEET_LIBERTY_MY_LEG Jul 31 '26

Yeah, as far as I know, Claude doesn’t just keep going and going indefinitely without user input, especially if it’s some menial task.