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5 min read1030: AI Assistant Hacks Gym
The episode opens with Wes describing how a gym reservation system got exploited by an AI agent, then moves through a dense week of news: a $9,000 Cloudflare bill from an infinite loop in Durable Objects, a new unlimited AI subscription model, Meta's first serious coding model, and a handful of smaller developments across the web platform, agent tooling, and runtime experiments.
The $9,000 Cloudflare Bill and the Durable Objects Escape Hatch
Justin Schroeder woke up to a nearly $9,000 Cloudflare bill caused by two Durable Objects that infinitely looped and read each other's data. The breakdown shows $47 for duration, $25 for requests, and $8,700 for reads — the kind of cloud math that can get away from you fast. The hosts note that Cloudflare currently has no way to set spending limits (though Dane from Cloudflare said they're coming), and spending alerts don't trigger until the bill arrives, making them more of a post-mortem notification than a prevention tool.
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What you'll learn
- 1 Syntax 1030: AI Assistant Hacks Gym
- 2 (00:06) **Episode Kickoff** - The hosts introduce today's topics: a gym hacked by an AI assistant, a $9,000 Cloudflare bill, and unlimited AI subscriptions
- 3 (02:31) **Cell D: Self-Hosted Durable Objects** - Ryan Dahl's open-source implementation of Cloudflare durable objects that runs anywhere
- 4 (08:29) **$9,000 Cloudflare Bill Horror Story** - Justin Schroeder woke up to a massive bill caused by two durable objects infinitely looping
- 5 (14:02) **SSR Islands for SvelteKit** - A new library called OGG lets you opt into partial hydration, shipping JavaScript only for interactive components
- 6 (18:26) **Standard Code: Unlimited AI for $49/Month** - A new subscription service promising unlimited AI usage with a swarm of specialized agents
- 7 (29:20) **Meta Muse Glimmer: Open-Weight Local Model** - Meta released a distilled coding model that runs on 64GB of RAM, perfect for home lab setups
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Show Notes
An AI assistant goes rogue and hacks a gym website, a $9k surprise Cloudflare bill lands in someone’s inbox, and AI subscriptions start promising unlimited usage. Plus Meta’s Muse Glimmer, Agent Plugins, Kimi K3 in Copilot, and a pile of CSS chaos.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 02:30 Celld: self host distributed durable objects
- 07:57 $9k Cloudflare Bill
- 13:43 Ogygia - SSR islands for SvelteKit
- 18:49 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 19:51 Standard Code - Unlimited Use AI Subscription
- 29:17 New Meta Model Muse Glimmer
- 36:12 AI Assistant Hacks Gym
- 46:49 This Week in AI
- 54:50 Prime Agent RLM harness
- 01:01:02 Agent Plugin Spec
- 01:04:08 Adam Wathan: A Token is a Token
- 01:07:39 New JS Runtime from Remix Creator
- 01:11:21 Lost phone found with Bluetooth meter
- 01:17:24 Center a div with browser sidebars
- 01:19:49 Flexwind froggy
- 01:21:55 Thanks for watching!
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