Slim | ai-costguard

AI agents don't warn you before the invoice.
ai-costguard blocks the call before tokens leave.
Node.js. $0 to install.

[Slim | ai-costguard @SlimAssiliX]

Week 1: $127
Week 2: $891
Week 3: $6,240
Week 4: $18,400
No pages. No errors. Every health check green.
Then someone opened the invoice.
$47,000.

Four agents had been talking to each other in a loop for 11 days.
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@MiaAI_lab @SpaceXAI @elonmusk burned 2 weekly limits in 12 hours and the ask is higher limits, not why it happened that fast

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@cursor_ai create, store, deploy.
three companies now sitting between you and your own code before it's even running

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@XFreeze removing the last bit of friction between "idea" and "running agent" is genuinely impressive.
it's also the last speed bump before the bill

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@XFreeze first thing every mobile agent ships is a slick UI.
last thing is a hard budget stop

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@poteto @bot agent in your pocket now.
nobody ships the kill switch in the same app

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@kimmonismus same energy as "my employee handles everything" right before you check the expense report

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@claudeai 10,000 scientists with 5x usage limits is incredible for science but someone should tell them what an agent loop costs at the end of a grant cycle

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@vercel_dev @AntLingAGI free through September 25.
the agent you wire to it doesn't know what September 26 means

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@elonmusk @Teslaconomics "make you whole" after an agent runs.
hard to make anyone whole after it already sent the emails, made the API calls, and burned the budget

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@ChatGPT temporary chat with your full memory and all your plugins loaded.
the only thing temporary about it is where they store the log

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@kimmonismus "continue working until put to sleep" is the feature.
what it does to your API bill before you wake up is the part nobody demoed

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@AnthropicAI software agents looping is a budget problem.
agents looping on a CNC machine or a lab centrifuge is a different category of problem entirely

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@DavidSacks NVDA's record quarter is everyone else's record spend.
the bubble narrative is wrong but so is the victory lap,
someone's paying for every chip Jensen sells

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@XFreeze every AI tool is shipping a library page this month.
the feature nobody asked for until they spent 40 minutes digging through old chats looking for one image they made Tuesday

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@a16z 90% of the meeting saying no to a16z and they still got the check.
most founders spend that same hour agreeing to every feature request in the room

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@XFreeze MCP server now retries instead of staying unavailable.
nobody's shipping the thing that stops it from retrying 40 times on your dime while it recovers

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@daniel_mac8 "always-on Jarvis with access to your files and all your apps" is the dream pitch.
"always-on" is also the part that should make you ask who's watching the bill

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@rauchg @matiNotFound the best devtools right now aren't being designed in product meetings.
they're being extracted from internal pain.
"export of internal tech" is just the polite way to say that

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@benln @bot @shaoruu @baltaaazr @poteto @lingxi @johnbai @pengzheng_ @SamSokolin Following individual engineers for product updates is the new changelog.
every official announcement is already 3 weeks late by the time it ships

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@rauchg @vercel This is right.
The part almost no one adds: none of that customization includes a hard stop on what the agent spends before you notice it's looping