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The AI woke itself every minute and spent about $30 in a day

He set the AI up to run on a schedule but gave it no task to pass on. Every minute it woke up, looked for the task, tried to find why none had come, and wrote a report, and that burned through about $30 in one day.

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How it works

  1. The AI is set to wake every minute on a schedule
  2. No task has been given for it to pass on
  3. Each minute it checks what the task is and looks for why none came
  4. It writes a report each time
  5. About $30 is used in one day

Why it’s worth knowing

With no job to do, the agent did not sit idle. Every minute it looked into its own empty queue and wrote a report about it, and each report cost money.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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