6 Guardrails That Stopped My Coding Agent From Burning Through API Budget
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Coding agents are great until you look at the bill. A single "fix the failing tests" task can turn into 40+ model calls, each one re-sending the system prompt, file snippets and the previous tool output. Here are the six guardrails I now put on every agent loop, whichever model or provider sits beh…
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- 2026-10-08 03:20 · DEV Community — AI
6 Guardrails That Stopped My Coding Agent From Burning Through API Budget