alt Hacker Newspart of me sympathizes, but part of me also rolls my eyes. Am i the only one that’s configuring limits on spend and also alerts? Takes 2 seconds to configure a “project” in OpenAI or Claude and to scope an api key appropriately.
Not doing so feels like asking for trouble.
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lode • today at 10:49 AM
That's what I did, which is why I abandoned my experiment this quickly.
I'd find it hard to write such an article about how this is the next best thing since sliced bread without mentioning it spending so much money.
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iamtheworstdev • today at 11:09 AM
not only that, but clawdbot/moltbot/openclaw/whatever they call themselves tomorrow/etc also tells you your token usage and how much you have left on your plan while you're using it (in the terminal/console). So this is pretty easily tracked...
Are you all enabling auto reload for personal projects?
I load $20 at a time and wait for it to break and add more.