Programming
I got a $100 AI bill. Then I found the $80,000 ones. So I built a kill switch.(2026)
A few weeks ago I woke up to a $100 charge from my AI provider.
For a lot of people that's nothing. For me, a solo dev who obsessively keeps infrastructure costs near zero, it genuinely stung. But that wasn't even the part that got me.
The part that got me was what I found when I went looking for...
May 26, 2026 · 3 min read