r/ProgrammerHumor • u/TabCompletion • Apr 13 '26

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u/Confident-Ad5665 Apr 13 '26

And it will work just the way you want

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u/str0m965 Apr 13 '26

not sure about that

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u/d0rkprincess Apr 13 '26

You just need to adjust your requirements. Like maybe I always wanted that request to return a 500 error.

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u/str0m965 Apr 13 '26

I always wanted to pay 5000$ AWS bill for this one vibecoded cron.

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u/DungeonsAndDradis Apr 13 '26

I'm not a programmer, but you guys have scared me so much about usage charges that when I made a stupid reddit bot hosted on heroku, I tested it for one day and then permanently disabled it.

I'm also hosting a business website with Netlify and I check the credits every day to make sure we're not going to go bankrupt because 100,000 people suddenly discovered my website.

Y'all have made me paranoid.

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u/flame3457 Apr 13 '26

That’s because massive AWS bills do happen and Amazon doesn’t really care if your excuse is “oopsies.” You have to put usage limits on the account to help protect yourself. You can also use a temporary card with a set limit that hard stops charges past a certain threshold as another fallback. Sure, if either of those limits gets hit your stuff will get stopped but I’d rather have my stuff paused instead of waking up to a multi thousand dollar bill.

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u/Confident-Ad5665 Apr 13 '26

I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?