AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42

Re:AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 by dannyw on Friday June 12, 2026 @06:06AM (#48502090)

Honestly, probably not that much electricity. AWS will charge you the hourly price irrespective of your load/power consumption. But instances sitting idle generally don't use that much power.

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Re:AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 by a2128 on Friday June 12, 2026 @07:09AM (#48502575)

AWS wasn't the only thing consuming power, there was also the LLM which must've wasted an ungodly amount of tokens on this pointless endeavour

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Re:AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 by giantrobot on Friday June 12, 2026 @07:07AM (#48502547)

All those thinking tokens wasted on being an asshole wasted a lot of electricity.

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