{"id":1030856,"date":"2026-08-24T10:53:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030856"},"modified":"2026-08-24T10:53:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:23:45","slug":"this-ceos-ai-agent-burned-1000-while-he-was-having-dinner-he-says-thats-not-the-real-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/24\/this-ceos-ai-agent-burned-1000-while-he-was-having-dinner-he-says-thats-not-the-real-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"This CEO&#8217;s AI agent burned $1,000 while he was having dinner. He says that&#8217;s not the real problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Branden Jenkins was out for dinner when he checked his phone and discovered that a weekend coding session with an AI agent had cost him $1,000.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins, CEO of Atlanta-based software company Maxio, had been using Claude to write and debug code remotely. His account was configured to automatically replenish his token balance in $1,000 increments, meaning his card was charged without requiring another approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Branden Jenkins was out for dinner when he checked his phone and discovered that a weekend coding session with an AI agent had cost him $1,000. Jenkins, CEO of Atlanta-based software company Maxio, had been using Claude to write and debug code remotely. His account was configured to automatically replenish his token balance in $1,000 increments, meaning his card was charged without requiring another approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030857,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030856\/revisions\/1030857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}