Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider (opens strandsagents.com)
Strands (AWS) says Amazon replaced Sonnet 4.6 with its Strands Decider in an agent workflow and saved millions; 689 points and 242 comments on HN.
Context: A restaurant owner with no development background says they built their restaurant's operations software with Claude Code instead of paying for five apps.
From r/ClaudeAI: I own a smash burger restaurant. I’m not a developer, but since late last year I’ve been using Claude Code to build the software we run the business on. It’s called Pulse, and my staff use it every day.
Strands (AWS) says Amazon replaced Sonnet 4.6 with its Strands Decider in an agent workflow and saved millions; 689 points and 242 comments on HN.
Anthropic also announced Claude Whiteboards, Sheets and Data the same day; Claude Meetings drafts plans and timelines as participants talk.
A standalone policy for US small and midsized businesses covering losses caused by the AI agents they deploy.
Bay lets enterprises vet each action an AI agent tries to take before it runs.
Zendesk will charge for problems solved rather than per seat, one of the first large SaaS vendors to move its AI to outcome pricing.
Always-on AI coworkers that live in Slack; 22 votes on YC Launches.