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Amazon admits it accidentally shelled out $1.8 million for Claude to finish its menial coding tasks

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  • Amazon's Claude Sonnet project cost $1.8 million, 860% over budget
  • The overspending remained undetected internally for nearly five months straight
  • A financial auditing tool project exceeded its budget by $541,000

Amazon has confirmed an internal Claude Sonnet deployment intended for matching author details with product listings ballooned far beyond its planned budget.

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