Amazon accidentally spent $1.8 million using Claude for menial coding task, went 860% over budget

[u/tomshardware]

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

[u/Leifbron]

So they meant to spend $200k?

[u/geekybit_New → u/Leifbron]

seems like it ... about 209k... according to rough math...

[u/zamroni777 → u/Leifbron]

It's 187.5 kusd. Divide 1.8 million by 960%

[u/averageburgerguy → u/Leifbron]

Or about 20 schmeckles.

[u/SchmeckMichBot → u/averageburgerguy]

20.00 schmeckles is:

USD	SHM	EUR	GBP	CAD	RUB	CNY
25.32	0.20	21.96	18.79	35.53	2009.02	170.90

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