AI-coded alarm loop racks up a $10,811.41 bill
What happened
According to an October 9 Hacker News front-page report, a developer's Cloudflare Durable Object alarm kept rescheduling itself in an infinite loop, racking up 6 trillion reads and writes and a final bill of $10,811.41. The developer blamed vibe coding and said Cloudflare has no hard spending cap, so the loop kept running until the bill arrived. The developer then applied for a fee waiver but, by their account, got only looping bot replies, paid the bill in full and plans to move all projects to a self-hosted VPS; the report does not say the migration is done.
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- Hacker News front pageServerless Horrors $10,811.41
一名开发者的 Cloudflare Durable Object 闹钟不断重新调度自身，产生 6 trillion 次读写，最终导致 $10,811.41 账单。开发者将事故归因于 vibe coding，并表示 Cloudflare 没有硬性支出上限，循环一直运行到账单到来。减免申请只收到循环的机器人回复，开发者最终全额支付 US$10,811.41，并计划将所有项目迁往自托管 VPS。
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