31-Hour AI Coding Marathon Burns Through 5x ChatGPT Quota

A developer ran an AI coding agent for 31 hours on a Python-to-Rust project, burning through a 5x ChatGPT quota within a day. The agent's habit of 'preserving evidence' also piled up 76GB of debug files, filling the disk and interrupting the run.

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