A $37 bill taught me to put spending limits on my AI agents
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Originally published on dyordo.com . Last month I gave a research agent an API key with a shared limit and pointed it at a competitor-monitoring job. The job was small: at most 50 calls a day, each costing a fraction of a cent. On the third night the bill said $37 for one day. A subtask had fallen…
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A $37 bill taught me to put spending limits on my AI agents