Your AI token disasters,
finally celebrated.

Share the prompt loops, the runaway agents, the $200 overnight bills.
Vote the best disasters up. Feel less alone.

Sign in & submit your story How it works
Prompts Clear filter
  1. 521
    Prompts Fiction

    Used a 10-page system prompt for a chatbot that just needed to say "store hours are 9-5"

    Client wanted a chatbot for their bakery website. Simple use case: answer questions about opening hours, location, and the menu. I went full enterprise mode. I wrote a 2,000-word …

    Henry Osei Mar 01, 2026 Comments
  2. 445
    Prompts Fiction

    Spent 3 weeks and ~$800 prompt-engineering a classifier. A regex would have worked.

    Story time. I joined a startup and my first task was to classify support tickets into 12 categories. I thought: this is a perfect use case for an LLM. I spent three weeks iteratin…

    Bob Martinez Mar 02, 2026 Comments
  3. 378
    Prompts Fiction

    I asked GPT-4 to "be creative" in a loop 10,000 times for a dataset. Do not do this.

    I needed a dataset of creative product descriptions for a fine-tuning job. I figured I'd generate them with GPT-4 — give it a product name, tell it to be creative, done. What I di…

    Eva Rossi Mar 01, 2026 Comments