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Lion Brain: a Durable Object alarm loop from an AI-coding bug wrote about 250 million rows, roughly $210.
Replying in another user's Community thread, bennygoldstein says a bug written by an AI coding tool made a Durable Object alarm in their Lion Brain app re-index the same data every few seconds on October 10 and 11, 2026, writing about 250 million rows and costing roughly $210 in overage on Workers Paid. He says he only found out from the budget alert email, which never pauses anything, and that he opened a billing case asking for a one-time courtesy credit and a real hard spending cap.
What happened
- Reported cause
- Unbounded loop
- Incident date
- 2026-10-10
- First reported
- 2026-10-12
- Billing outcome
- Request submittedAuthor-reported
- Case progress
- Not established
- Public Cloudflare reply
- Not linked
Latest reported outcome
The author says he opened a billing case asking for a one-time courtesy credit and a hard spending cap and is still waiting for a reply.
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Case timeline
Author reports the alarm loop and asks for credit
Open original sourceThe author says an alarm loop wrote about 250 million rows over October 10 and 11, roughly $210 in overage, that the budget alert email did not pause anything, and that a billing case asks for a courtesy credit and a hard spending cap.
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