A few weeks ago I woke up to a $100 charge from my AI provider. For a lot of people that's nothing....
A few weeks ago I woke up to a $100 charge from my AI provider.
For a lot of people that's nothing. For me, a solo dev who obsessively keeps infrastructure costs near zero, it genuinely stung. But that wasn't even the part that got me.
The part that got me was what I found when I went looking for answers.
The Actual Problem
Reddit threads. Developer forums. People waking up to $10,000. $30,000. $80,000 bills.
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