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QueensGambit • today at 7:30 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I got $10K GCP bill one month because of ClaudeBot. Its likely some users were trying to replicate our software by using Claude code + chrome plugin. If I was spending $10K on traffic, I can only imagine the money cloners must be spending on tokens.


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spindump8930 • today at 8:05 PM

Well, potentially very little! It could be subscription usage, or just really inefficient code authored by an agent. It probably costs LESS in tokens to write a poor quality cloner that breaks upstream things.