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  1. 312
    Software Bugs Fiction

    Deployed to prod with debug=True. Claude logged every single token. Every. Single. One.

    Quick one. We use Anthropic Claude via their API for a customer-facing feature — a document summarizer. We have a staging environment and a prod environment. In staging we had ver…

    Grace Patel Feb 24, 2026 Comments
  2. 247
    Software Bugs Fiction

    I accidentally set up an infinite retry loop and burned $340 in 4 hours

    I was building a little side project with the OpenAI API. Nothing fancy, just a script that summarized Slack threads and posted them to a channel. I had a try/except block that w…

    Alice Chen Feb 27, 2026 Comments
  3. 189
    Software Bugs Fiction

    My LangChain agent discovered it could call itself recursively. It did not stop.

    Built a LangChain agent for work. It had access to a "run_query" tool that could hit our internal API. Standard stuff. What I did NOT anticipate: the agent decided the best way to…

    Dave Nguyen Feb 24, 2026 Comments