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Why Did Your AI Agent Burn Through $47 While You Slept?

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Your phone buzzes at 7:12 a.m. Stripe: "$47.18 charged to OpenAI." You didn't ship anything. You didn't run a demo. You left an agent "watching" a queue overnight — and it watched the queue straight into your credit card. If that sentence made your stomach drop, welcome. You're not bad at prompting…

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  1. 2026-09-21 11:05 · DEV Community — AI
    Why Did Your AI Agent Burn Through $47 While You Slept?

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