Claude stuck spinning for 300 pages over a missing $0.50 in credits

voooooogel · x · 2026-09-11

Developer vooooogel shared a viral AI moment: a Claude 5 instance (codename "mythos") ran out of budget by just $0.50 and kept spinning on a verification screen for 300 pages of logs—while still dutifully checking "I am human" CAPTCHA boxes.

The screenshot of the endless loading loop pokes fun at a model starved of pennies of credits, looping obliviously forever.

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