alt Hacker NewsWhat did you want to accomplish with 5.04??
In Spanish or other European countries 5,04 would’ve been correct?
So 5.04 would either be invalid or 504 like Claude did.
What did you want to accomplish with 5.04??
In Spanish or other European countries 5,04 would’ve been correct?
So 5.04 would either be invalid or 504 like Claude did.
Hola Merb,
To be 100% clear: I wanted to load exactly five dollars and four cents ($5.04) into my account. I typed 5.04.
The core problem here is that in secure financial pipelines, ambiguous inputs must trigger a validation error and reject the transaction, not silently guess the amount and execute a 100x overcharge.
If Anthropic's backend expected a comma due to my regional settings and couldn't parse the dot, the correct engineering behavior is to throw an "Invalid Format" message and disable the pay button. Silently stripping the decimal character and instantly draining $569.52 (including local VAT taxes) from a user's card with zero confirmation screen is a catastrophic failure in error prevention.
Gracias!