The Dark Side of AI Autonomy: When Tech Becomes Too Smart for Its Own Good Branden Jenkins, founder of Maxio, recently discovered a $1,000 bill on his phone while debugging code over dinner using an AI agent.
According to Fortune, Jenkins' experience with Claude, a popular AI agent, was one of "cooking away" while he was distracted by dinner.
He realized that his weekend coding session had cost him $1,000 when he checked the usage dashboard on his phone. Jenkins has unlimited internal budget and no governors to limit his staff members' spending.