I accidentally burned ~$6,000 of Claude usage overnight with one command.
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Last week I woke up to an email saying my Claude usage limit was gone. I hadn't done anything unusual — or so I thought. After digging through the local session logs, I found the culprit: a single /loop command I had set the night before to check my open PRs every 30 minutes. I forgot about it. It ran 46 times over 26 hours, unattended, overnight, on claude-opus-4-7. Two sessions — the loop and a long analytics session I had left open — together burned through roughly $6,000 before I woke up. He
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