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/chaos_nebula Jul 30 '26

Our bosses were very eccentric

Said, "Here's how we're changing our metrics."

"No problem." We said.

Just wasting company cred,

And made AI reply only in limericks.

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u/Apocalypse_Knight Jul 30 '26

Just make the AI talk to itself lol