I built a Mac app after getting surprised by my Claude bill

<p>I opened an AI invoice recently and felt the stomach drop that every solo developer knows too well.</p> <p>It was not a catastrophic number. It was worse than that. It was a

<p>I kept seeing the same pattern in my own work. The bill was never the first problem. The first problem was that I did not know what I was spending while I was spending it.</p>

<p>A few months ago I opened my AI bill and did the dumb double-take every solo dev knows.</p> <p>Not because I had a huge team.<br /> Because the cost was invisible while I was

<p>This post from Anthropic is causing a lot of angst among its most ardent users. While it is disguised as a credit, it really is them tightening API token limits (aka charging

<ul> <li><p>OhNine is a free menu bar app that tracks Claude session and weekly usage limits in real time</p></li> <li><p>It sends native alerts at 80%, 91%, and 100% so a session

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1xa3dhc/you_want_this_on_your_mac_menu_bar_made_with_astra/"> <img alt="You want this on your Mac menu bar (Made

<p>Every Monday I'd sit down for our team sync and draw a blank.</p> <p>What did I actually work on last week? How many hours did I put in? Was I in flow or just firefighting?</p>

<p><em>Originally published on <a href="https://dyordo.com/en/ai-tools/ai-agent-spending-guardrails/" rel="noopener noreferrer">dyordo.com</a>.</em></p> <p>Last month I gave a