Woopsies, I accidentally did an AI

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/amazon-accidentally-spent-1-8-160825610.html

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16 Comments

jbrains@sh.itjust.works · 43 pts · 3d (1 reply)

The word they meant to use is "carelessly". We would also have accepted "inattentively".

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 3d

"Greedily" works too.

Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 3d

My org has a policy of requesting us to use copilot as much as we can. Its also almost completely useless at my job, but its really good if i just write my functions and queries super sloppy and just get it to organize the text.

Burning down an acre of rainforest and charging the company so i don't have to press enter.

becausechemistry@piefed.social · 22 pts · 3d

If they went 860% over budget and spent 1.8 million dollars, they still intended to spend almost $190,000 on slop output from the plagiarism robot.

partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 3d

"Menial tasks should be performed using Amazon's own LLM call Nova. Did you know we had an LLM? No? Well we just fired the whole Nova team anyway." - Amazon executives probably

village604@adultswim.fan · 9 pts · 3d (1 reply)

Why is AWS using Claude when they have their own AI solutions.

inari@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 3d

Weren't they deliberately encouraging tokenmaxxing?

TootSweet@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3d (2 replies)

I would hope that this would give the few sane people left at Amazon a bit of ammo to reduce reliance on AI, but this is Amazon we're talking about.

gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 3d (1 reply)

Nah I want them to go all in. Seems like the world where that happens is the one where Amazon is most likely to collapse or at least emerge in a diminished state, which would be great. Fuck Amazon.

TootSweet@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3d

In the words of Cory Doctorow, "I'm not an accelerationist, but I'm not not an accelerationist."

Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3d

They denying pee breaks so the tech dept can go 860% over budget.

fox2263@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

A taste of their own medicine

Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 2d

Malicious compliance is the best way to get rid of AI

Make companies fear implementation and soaring costs

DrPop@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3d

I just finished reading Starship Troopers and cooking bacon only brings one thing to mind. But on topic that isn't a mistake.

dregan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

Aren't menial coding tasks what it does best? God fucking damnit, I don't want to be stuck doing the boring shit while Claude gets all the fun stuff.