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Amazon accidentally spent $1.8M using Claude for a menial coding task, went

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primaryhnchatter2026-07-305 points · 1 comments
Amazon accidentally spent $1.8M using Claude for a menial coding task, went
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reactionhnchatter2026-08-018 points · 1 comments
Amazon spent $1.8M using Claude for menial coding task, went 860% over budget
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