Monetizing a Defect

Forgive me for a moment while I rant. I&rsquo;m a solo founder running a pre-revenue AI infrastructure company. This week I burned $100 in three hours on Claude Code &ldquo;extra usage&rdquo; doing routine work. I want to walk through what happened, because the pricing structure that produced that bill is not an accident, and the pattern is showing up across the industry. For context, I was…