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Benjamin De Kraker @BenjaminDEKR OpenClaw is interesting, but will also drain your wallet if you aren't careful. Last night around midnight I loaded my Anthropic API account with $20, then went to bed. When I woke up, my Anthropic balance was $O. Opus was checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night." Doing literally nothing, OpenClaw spent the entire balance. How?

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Benjamin De Kraker @BenjaminDEKR OpenClaw is interesting, but will also drain your wallet if you aren't careful. Last night around midnight I loaded my Anthropic API account with $20, then went to bed. When I woke up, my Anthropic balance was $O. Opus was checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night." Doing literally nothing, OpenClaw spent the entire balance. How?
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@990000@mstdn.social (990000@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Feb-2026 01:21:06 JST @990000@mstdn.social

Some genius made his AI remind him to get milk in the morning and it used up his $20 account balance overnight because it kept checking if it was morning every 30 minutes. Lmao. “AI”
https://bsky.app/profile/rusty.todayintabs.com/post/3mdrdhzqmr226
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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