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Lisette Titre-Montgomery @lisettetitre.bsky.social · 1d

Vibe coding yourself into $$$ google server debt by accident for the win!

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

guy in a legal advice reddit wants to know how to get out of paying google the money he owes them after vibe coding one of his apps into running 40 times a second for several days straight, but says it's not his fault bc they should have stopped him by making it harder to use

r/LegalAdviceUK u/ShavedAp3 • 3d
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Google want to charge me 7 k for API access what can I do as they are denying appeals
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Hi there and thanks for reading.
I tried to keep this brief and just ended up rambling on trying to get as much in as possible so here is my edited hopefully a lot smaller problem.
Google are charging me 7k for a mistake that I told them about within a day, the bill went from about £45 to 16k in a day! when I asked for help I was told "dont worry well reset it as a one off, you'll need to put measures in place and ill guide you through those after you agree" So i did he then said "I will monitor it for a further 24 - 48 hours and then tell you how to put the measures in place. " Less than 24 hours later the bill was now 23k and I found out how to stop it myself. Then came the long back and forth to get it reset.
Fast forward 5 months they have finally given me a 20k credit but with VAT the total bill at the time of the credit was 27k
The 20k would have cleared the costs at the time of making them aware they claim its both our responsibilities to monitor costs I feel I did that by contacting them as soon as I saw the irregularity.
I asked them to reconsider they said no the appeal has said that is their final offer so 1 now owe 7k.
Is there anything I can do here from a legal standpoint. I don't have 7k I barely have £45.
Thanks for reading I am in England if it helps.

Intentional or not, OP used either 36k (16 + 20) or 43k (16 + 27) of API credit. Obviously what API it is matters, but with google maps, 16k would equate to ten million pulls. Or two hundred thousand Gemini 2.5 calls with 1000 token input and 5k token output.
Those aren't numbers that something running correctly should run up for any average person or company. So either google screwed up something (which is unlikely that it would only happen to one person in the entire network) or OP has some app or something which isn't running properly and is sending too much to the API.
Edit: It was OP's app, polling google maps nearly 40 times a second for days.

tom_watts • 3d
According to other posts he ended up polling Google maps direction API 2300 times per minute for a few days. Looks like a combination of OP not knowing coding and asking ChatGPT to do it for him, and potentially Google's backend doing something weird in interpreting the janky code.
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Lisette Titre-Montgomery @lisettetitre.bsky.social · 1d

Ai fails all 4 of his hype cycle fail points and all 3 ”fad Audits” BTW
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Lisette Titre-Montgomery @lisettetitre.bsky.social · 1d

Our #gamdev Christmas bonus announcements every year:

From the BlackPeopleTwitter community on Reddit: Due to market conditions, we’ve had to scale back bonuses

Explore this post and more from the BlackPeopleTwitter community

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Lisette Titre-Montgomery @lisettetitre.bsky.social · 1d

This is what gaming leadership having vertebrae looks like

Toxic players cost us billions.
1/3rd of all gamers quit playing games all together due to toxicity.
We are losing players everyday

If you owned a restaurant and 1/3 of your customers left and never came back guess what you’d be? Closed

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 2d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 1d

"Put simply, only the extremely wealthy appear to be benefiting from all of this."

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 1d

We stand in solidarity with employees and ex-employees at Build a Rocket Boy as they file legal claims through our union and publish an open letter, condemning the way in which they’ve been mistreated and discarded by the studio’s millionaire executives.

www.gameworkers.co.uk/barb-open-le...

Open Letter to the Executive Leadership at Build A Rocket Boy

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JC Lau @drjclau.bsky.social · 1d

See, it's not fucking hard to foster the community and audience you want for your game and stick to your principles!

More of this energy please 😎

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 2d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Uzair Rashid @uzairrashid.bsky.social · 1d

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lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 1d

it's that time of year, it's time to get your flu and covid booster shot unless you're from massachusetts then it's time for your flu and covid borcester shot

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Lisette Titre-Montgomery @lisettetitre.bsky.social · 1d

Beware any gaming execs who describe their employees as “family” 🚩🚩🚩

Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 1d

'CEOs need to take a backseat:' MindsEye devs accuse studio execs of fumbling layoffs and mandating crunch

Almost 100 current and former Build A Rocket Boy employees have signed an open letter containing allegations of debilitating mismanagement–and some workers are even filing legal claims.

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Janet Garcia @gameonysus.bsky.social · 1d

How I feel waking up and finally having nothing on my calendar.

Homer Simpson snuggled up in bed like a “toasty cinnamon roll”

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Lisette Titre-Montgomery @lisettetitre.bsky.social · 1d

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Lisette Titre-Montgomery @lisettetitre.bsky.social · 1d

The first rule of art direction is avoid accidental peen.

GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 2d

A group of former ZeniMax Online developers have announced the formation of Sackbird Studios

www.gamesindustry.biz/former-zenim...

Former ZeniMax Online devs form Sackbird Studios

"We realized the best way to protect our craft – and our team – was to create a studio where creative independence isn’t negotiable," says CEO

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Charles Boury @charlesboury.fr · 2d

Getting back to writing blog posts! ✏️

It’s old content, a 4y.o twitter thread, lost when I fled the old place. I decided to bring it back to you.

Maybe you recall it? It was about stairs 🛕

charlesboury.fr/articles/tex... #gamedev #b3d

Texture first, model later

A reverse workflow to create props based on tiled textures

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Lisette Titre-Montgomery @lisettetitre.bsky.social · 3d

After navigating the censorship issues of working on a South Park game at Ubi…

a group of young people are standing next to each other and one of them is making a face .

ALT: a group of young people are standing next to each other and one of them is making a face .

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Lisette Titre-Montgomery @lisettetitre.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. True work of art depicting the surreal consequences our countries leadership crisis.

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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 3d

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d

Since SNL is back I want to mention that short term cast member Luke Mones had an idea for a sketch they never did where a guy on death row is asked what he wants for his last meal and he says Olive Garden’s Never Ending Soup and Breadsticks and they can never execute him because he keeps eating

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Comic Book Club @comicbookclub.bsky.social · 3d

Jim Lee's impassioned words about why DC will never use AI have already won New York Comic Con.

Jim Lee On Why DC Will Never Use AI: “AI Doesn’t Dream, Feel, Or Make Art, It Aggregates It”

The President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics spoke out at today's Retailer Day at New York Comic Con.

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Aender Lara @aenderlara.bsky.social · 3d

Dude just play the song.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 5d

Spotify is partnering with ChatGPT

• Will personalize music and podcast recommendations

• Available on an opt-in basis

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Derek Laufman @laufman.bsky.social · 3d

More 2019 Inktober pieces. #inktober

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Anna Megill @annamegill.com · 3d

The OTHER project at CDPR's Boston studio is hiring a Lead Writer. (FT, onsite preferred) Come work with a very chill and creative team on Project Sirius ✨️

jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CDPROJEKTRED...

Lead Writer

Company Description: To create revolutionary, story-driven RPGs which go straight to the hearts of gamers — this is our mission. Want to dive deeper into our company’s culture? Explore our social medi...

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🦇🩸Hexavier🩸🦇 @xavierck.com · 3d

We desperately need someone with your very specific set of skills, like, RIGHT NOW! OMG!

But ooooooooonly if you're willing to relocate so you can sit in an office and desperately try ignore other people so you can get half as much work done in twice the time 😎

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 4d

how everyone on this site announces they're looking for a gig

friends, acquaintances, strangers, it carves a pit of agony in my soul to have to announce that, because I am a living meat person who must gather and then exchange currency for the food products that nourish my shambling physical form, I am now digging in the dirt and filth of the internet for new work opportunities. if any of you could take pity on a wretch with only 37 years experience as a quantum physicist, please DM me

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