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

· Tom's Hardware ·

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Amazon has several internal reports that show how AI is causing the company to overspend on various projects. The Financial Times reports that the cost overruns reached $1.8 million, and that is just for one project. These mistakes used to be “trivially cheap,” but AI models made them “catastrophically expensive,” especially as token spending drastically increased with the deployment of AI agents.

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Jowi Morales

Jowi Morales is a tech enthusiast with years of experience working in the industry. He’s been writing with several tech publications since 2021, where he’s been interested in tech hardware and consumer electronics.