AI Prompt Deletes Redis Instances Saving $104 Monthly

this is me cleaning up some leftover services for my old startup @OMMultiverse

we have a huge legacy codebase and a community that still uses it but I haven't had any time to actually look into cost saving measures myself

@trq212 Haha, this is pretty scary. It executed automatically with zero review or approval. You still absolutely need to isolate your environments for safety.

@zouyanjian nah it did require explicit approval

@trq212 wait so it actually executes? thats dangerously good to know

@trq212 dont tell me this actually killed your redis instances lmao

@kubedoll @OMMultiverse oh yeah! did you play?

@trq212 “Delete weekly limits and reset” 🥹

@trq212 lmao imagine killing the user cuz they are prompting and costing money

@trq212 Wait that’s a thing?? OKAY 😂

@trq212 I asked Claude to review any useless bills creeping up on my financials, and it found two, saving me about 300 bucks a year. LLMs ftw.

@trq212 Dario: please save me money Claude: ok, I've shut down the company successfu..

Dario: Hello? (failed to send)

@trq212 Please save us money and reset limits @trq212

@justgrm auto mode! and also I'm looking closely lol

@trq212 ran one of these across our infra last month and it surfaced a dev redis we'd forgotten about. found it fine but I'm still wary of auto-execute on cleanup even with approval. one wrong infra call is hard to undo if it's gone off of just file or billing inspection

@trq212 this is what happens when a wizard gets access to municipal funding

@trq212 built my own monarch using claude

@luminxbt lmao these were old unused ones I literally didnt know we had around from my old startup

@trq212 I would say that I'm almost out of food. If you help me save money, you are saving my life

@trq212 @OMMultiverse briefly! i have been trying to get a group together since launch 😭 it's really just like the real thing

@trq212 This is insane. Have you tried to include the sentence in CLAUDE.md?