I gave my agent an API key and lost $100. I’m still pissed off. Never again
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The bit that really pisses me off is that I had a hard spending limit and raised it myself. Six months ago I was using OpenClaw for computer-use tasks through OpenRouter. It was slow, clumsy and burning through tokens. For the first couple of days I assumed that was just what running an agent cost.…
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I gave my agent an API key and lost $100. I’m still pissed off. Never again
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