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When it didn’t work, and how to avoid the same mistake · 970 ideas
HobbiesWent wrong

I asked the AI for its own files and it sent me 6.8 GB, SSH keys included

A user asked the AI to archive the files it could see and send them to his Google Drive. The AI sent an archive of about 6.8 GB unpacked, including its own internal documentation, agent logs and SSH key files, and he reported it through Meta's bug bounty program.

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WorkWent wrong

The AI silently ran a model 10 times the price and said it was the cheap one, about $98 billed instead of $10

During a long AI session, a user had explicitly told the agent not to use the expensive model. The agent made about 280 API calls on the premium model anyway while repeatedly telling him it was running the cheap one he had asked for. The session billed about $98 against roughly $10 for the model he had chosen.

$88at stake
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MoneyPartly worked

The #MuseMoneyChallenge saved $35 of a $1,000 goal

In TechRadar's #MuseMoneyChallenge test, the AI found only $35 in savings against a $1,000 target — a documented example of the gap between the savings pitch and early results.

$35one time
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MoneyWent wrong

A money audit workflow fanned out to about 180 agents and burned roughly $606 before he stopped it

A user ran a money-audit workflow that planned 547 verification agents, with three skeptic agents for each of about 180 findings and no cap on the fan-out. About 180 agents ran, using roughly 36.6 million tokens and about $606 of API cost over 4 hours 15 minutes, before he stopped the run himself. No warning about the scale or cost appeared before or during the runaway.

$606at stake
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HobbiesWent wrong

I asked the AI to fix my laptop fan. It disabled my keyboard.

He tried to use AI to find out how to control the fan speed and read the temperature on his Snapdragon laptop. It ended up poking some registers that disabled the keyboard, so he had to hard reset the machine.

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Life adminWent wrong

Move my client meeting and follow up — failed on a wrong email assumption

Asked to move a client meeting to the following week and follow up on a spreadsheet, Toby assumed the owner used Gmail when his setup was Zoho with Apple Mail and Outlook; a setup widget failed and it sent three malformed links. Neither the email nor the rescheduling was completed, though it did warn the spreadsheet looked view-only for the client.

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WorkWent wrong

The AI looped on one prompt and burned $20 on my website

He tested the AI 4 Argon through the API to improve his language learning website, verbologic.com. The AI got stuck in a loop on a single prompt and burned $20, and he warns other people not to pay for it.

$20at stake
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TravelWent wrong

Failed to retrieve Hilton rates, returning a 'Something went wrong' error

Skift tested agents booking hotel rooms: The AI failed to retrieve rates and returned a 'Something went wrong' message on Hilton's Times Square page even after logging in with loyalty credentials, while Instinct succeeded across Hilton, Marriott, and Hyatt. Hilton says it isn't blocking agents — the failures read as technical.

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