THIS GUY LOST $200 IN ONE DAY BECAUSE THE STRING "HERMES.md" WAS IN HIS GIT COMMITS
HERMES.md is a real convention used in AI agent projects. it's a system prompt specification file. not some obscure edge case
he's on claude max 20x at $200 a month. yesterday claude code hit him with "you're out of extra usage" out of nowhere
his dashboard showed 13% weekly usage. 0% current session. 86% of his plan was sitting there untouched
but $200.98 in extra usage already burned through what should have been covered by his subscription
he tried logout & login, different models, fresh installs and nothing worked
anthropic support sent the ai bot (four rounds of the same scripted response). eventually they just gave up on him
so he started binary searching repos and commits manually on his own time until he found the trigger
the string "HERMES.md" in a recent git commit message
uppercase, with the .md extension, anywhere in your commit history
that's it
claude code includes recent commits in its system prompt and something server side flags HERMES.md and quietly routes you off your max plan onto API rate billing
> AGENTS.md? fine
> README.md? fine
> HERMES without .md? fine
> lowercase hermes.md? fine
> uppercase HERMES.md? you're getting charged API rates
he reported it. anthropic support acknowledged the bug three times, called it an "authentication routing issue", thanked him for finding it
then refused to refund the $200
so the man pays $200 a month for max, lost another $200 to a billing bug they confirmed, did anthropic's QA work for free on his weekend, and got a "thank you for your patience" in return
check your commit history before claude code quietly drains your account too
@JaschaSamadi@sonson8800@pondermint@tradexyz Quite the opposite is by far bad. Just look at the 2nd by oi: you pay way less spread but you are going to give it back in the funding rate. Also that is the spread when the market is flat dead: screenshot the spread when it moves and you'll see why XYZ is the only option
when im writing about a trade idea, or developing a new system, whatever, i have this md file i plug into claude and dump the draft, and it checks my draft for inconsistencies in argument or straight wrong assumptions that he finds.
helps me find find logical leaps i've taken or assumptions I've reached that may be wrong per research that is already out. then I have to argue with it and try to make my case through his objections, if im right, well i have a strong thesis, if im wrong , oh well i wont lose money on this thing innit.
@jack_avocado@macrocephalopod@MichaelRoyzen With just 3h data points: if they wanna prove it they can start to show 5+y performances (they obviously don't have). Or their factor exposure ( guess we will see some big shit).
Or even better don't show any graph, just give access to the signals and have it show live how goodis
@pedma7@PtrPomorski "Management risk-adversion": A company can now ship 10x faster and more products, but your C suits don't want to take up career risk by calling risky bets ( something they already are for clarity . It's not AI making them risk adverse)
So you can fire now devs for cost saving
Most screeners make you search.
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You open it and see what matters without hustle. Keep clicking what truly matters.
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@shillMeARiver @shachikyoto@pedma7 majors ... hype just crossed ath, eth nice rally but sucked for 2 y, sol finally back to ath, btc still has to send.
so if you focus on majors you really don't feel the same euphoria we had in late november😅
discretionary view, quantitative portfolio for thematic brypto long/short
probs one of the "harder" articles to write about (skill issue for me) but I write to level myself up so gotta give it a try
as usual giving access to some who RT
ref @macrocephalopod@__paleologo
Can my frens do @therobotjames and I a favor pls (r/t if you can)
We are opening up our trading systems as a vault on the HyperEVM, but we have no conception of normal people risk tolerances
These are 10 randomly generated equity curves at Sharpe 2 (we should be comfortably higher than that, its crypto) at various volatility levels
The 3 equity curves are best, worst, median
Poll follows
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