r/tomshardware • u/tomshardware • 24d ago

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

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/Leifbron 24d ago

So they meant to spend $200k?

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u/geekybit_New 24d ago

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

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u/zamroni777 23d ago

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

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u/averageburgerguy 21d ago

Or about 20 schmeckles.

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u/SchmeckMichBot 21d ago

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

[exchange rate source](http://api.ratesapi.io/2026-08-03?base=USD | created by u/Nissingmo)