Post #1828076

Reminder in response to yet another billing incident involving insanely high surprise charges (<https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/unexpected-54k-billing-spike-in-13-hours-firebase-browser-key-without-api-restrictions-used-for-gemini-requests/140262>): The Purpose of a Billing System Is What It Does See also: mrkurt commenting on why Fly.io also went with the standard playbook of having no limits on spending and refused to let you set a self-service hard cap so you wouldn't end up with a 54000 MNY bill: "putting work into features specifically to minimize how much people spend seems like a good way to fail a company."