The $500 Dream Tax: Forgotten VM Edition

Even your dreams aren't safe from the crushing reality of cloud computing costs. Just when you think you can escape the existential dread of work, your brain decides to remind you about that VM you left running in AWS. Nothing says "professional developer" quite like waking up in a cold sweat calculating how many hours of compute time you've accidentally burned through while sleeping. Your wallet is crying, your manager is drafting an email, and somewhere Jeff Bezos just bought another yacht with your forgotten instance money.