Taxonomy of AI footguns for non-coders

A collection of generative AI fails from my own personal use.

This is written with the “your personal coder” LLMs in mind, not the web chatroom ones. Like Claude Code and Codex.

AI poorly optimizes something that’s free-only-below-ceiling

I made a Cloudflare database that used something called “D1 reads”. It was free under 5 billion reads, but paid otherwise.

My initial attempts revealed that I barely spend any of these D1 reads, so I promptly forgot about tracking them.

Unrelatedly, I also added my debit card to Cloudflare so that I can pay for their $5/month subscription that gave me