Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider

Re:Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strand... by wodenokoto on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:01AM (#50436989)

You can can't build an SVM-classifier for a ticketing system without domain data. You can ask an LLM to do it, and it will do it very well.

With the LLM you don't even need a data scientist to train the model, you just need someone who can connect to APIs. And the LLM is fine with adding and removing categories. No retraining.

It makes the initial faces incredibly fast. Then it is slow and expensive to run, so once the system settles, it becomes the target for model optimization, e.g, a dedicated, or semi-dedicated model.

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Re:Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strand... by Karrot_Kream on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:50AM (#50437687)

I mean just have a coding agent do the whole process from start to finish. Tell it you want to bootstrap an SVM from LLM runs on ticket data. I can bet that it'll do it all for you without much input from you at all.

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Re:Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strand... by gonzalohm on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @06:49AM (#50438988)

I think AI is making people forget that code can be used for automation.

I see coworkers using AI for tasks like "visit an API endpoint, download a file, put it in S3". This is so stupid. Okay if you want to use AI, but use it to write python code to do that, why pay in tokens every time you want to run that task, it makes no sense

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