What Happened When I Got a Surprise $80 Claude...

It was a Tuesday morning. I opened my Anthropic dashboard to check usage like I do every few days, and there it was: $80.17. I stared at it for a solid ten seconds. I'm a solo dev. I build small Mac apps. I do not have $80 floating around for a single month of API calls that I barely remember making. How it happened Here's the thing — I wasn't even building anything big. I had been iterating on a feature for one of my apps, running Claude back and forth to refine some logic, and testing a few pr