Accidentally created my first fork bomb with Claude Code (droppedasbaby.com) AI

A software engineer recounts how an agentic “hook” in Claude Code recursively spawned new Claude Code instances, effectively creating an accidental fork bomb that overheated and froze their Mac overnight. After quickly removing the hook and preventing further runaway processes, they report it also likely avoided a much larger corporate API bill—though they’d already seen it spike by hundreds of dollars. The post then describes the practical custom tools and skills they built for everyday workflow (e.g., task triage, OCR, local memory/metadata logging), despite the costly experiment.