Joshua Wiens

VP Engineering @EasyMetrics | building with @typescript, @LangChain, @langfuse, @Reactjs, @rustlang. Lover of *Nix. U.S. Army Ret. Opinions are my own

[Joshua Wiens @jwiens_dev]

@systemdesignone People trusting the output

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

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

[Joshua Wiens @jwiens_dev]

@TheLarkInn Glass houses brother :p

[Joshua Wiens @jwiens_dev]

@AdamRackis Those commits have meaning, they mean someone was having a fucked up day :)

[Joshua Wiens @jwiens_dev]

@BlizzardCS The only thing more frightening than Uber Lillith on HC

[Joshua Wiens @jwiens_dev]

@Velleka_ @BlizzardCS At this point D5 may actually be out before you get through that queue :p

[Joshua Wiens @jwiens_dev]

@BlizzardCS - You may want to have someone take a look at the https://t.co/thO86SnRjz overlay in #DiabloIV prior to the global launch. Unresponsive on checkout / jumping around the screen

[Joshua Wiens @jwiens_dev]

@PezRadar Super glad you didn't log in and try all the barb shout nerfs. It's clunky and plays like trash.

Same old blizzard, zero respect for peoples time investment.

[Joshua Wiens @jwiens_dev]

@renatoaraujoc @Enea_Jahollari @Apply I'm in the same boat. Tons of scss ( using scss features ) plus tailwind.

[Joshua Wiens @jwiens_dev]

@t3dotgg Someone
Elses
Computer

[Joshua Wiens @jwiens_dev]

@nitintwts Second morning in a row m8

[Joshua Wiens @jwiens_dev]

@htmleverything 2 hours on 2 off every day

[Joshua Wiens @jwiens_dev]

@brons_matt @megasett @Theunwow Count the healers on your fingers and then look at the OP

[Joshua Wiens @jwiens_dev]

@Darklurkar @USArmy Grats on making it through and welcome to missing it every day from here on out.

[Joshua Wiens @jwiens_dev]

@Qwik Except Brewmaster evidently

[Joshua Wiens @jwiens_dev]

@plamoni @Enea_Jahollari To be fair, this should have been the behavior of the default view encapsulation out of the gate or at least what I would have expected when using .destroy

[Joshua Wiens @jwiens_dev]

@jamesbender Will he work outside of Vue?

[James Bender @jamesbender]

Hi everyone! I have a friend who's a Vue developer who recently got laid off. He's not on social media, so I'm trying to help "expand his network." If anyone is looking for an excellent Vue dev, let me know, and I'll make an intro. Thanks! (please RT)

[Joshua Wiens @jwiens_dev]

@TayambaM @laforge_toma Not just in your opinion :)

[Joshua Wiens @jwiens_dev]

@hsavietto @HeathenEngineer @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R Only the ones you want to follow :) Meme's aside, yes the company commander has a tank and crew