Armin Ronacher Burned $1,200 in 35 Hours on GPT-6 Astra. Here Is the Math, and the Guardrails Worth Copying.
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Last month, Armin Ronacher left an AI agent running overnight. It was supposed to help build a Python variant with virtual threads and lexical scoping. In the morning he had 75,000 lines of new code, and he shut the whole thing off. Nobody stopped it: not the agent, not the harness. Only him, the n…
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- 2026-09-11 12:05 · DEV Community — AI
Armin Ronacher Burned $1,200 in 35 Hours on GPT-6 Astra. Here Is the Math, and the Guardrails Worth Copying.