I let AI burn through $100 by mistake.
I let AI burn through $100 by mistake. Yesterday I started creating a LinkedIn lead-gen automation. Instead of building it in n8n, I figured why not build it with Codex? So off I went, managed to build a copy of CLAY (GTM tool), and got the output I wanted. So I went ahead and told Codex, "hey, run this system on all the items." It starts running, 30 minutes passes by, another 30 minutes. 2 hours later, I start wondering "what is going on, it should not take this long to enrich the leads." So I start looking over my accounts. And lo and behold, Codex had managed to burn through my credits without producing any sort of results. So here I am now, 688 leads I need to run through again and enrich. I give up on letting AI write scripts and then having the AI run them. This is not even the first time it has happened, first time with Codex for sure. But I've tried running a similar idea with OpenRouter + Apify before. That burned through both accounts without creating any sort of results. So from here on out, I'll let the AI create the scripts for me. I'll then run the scripts myself, since that's way safer than letting an AI tool try to use the tools.