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An agent got stuck in a loop and burned $4,700 of a customer's budget overnight

a small b2b tool with a lean team of 3 customers run agents on our infra, we pay the model bill and then charge them monthly for usage Tuesday ended normally but Wednesday morning the openai dashboard had a weird outlier spike After investigating we found that a customer's agent hit a tool that kep…

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  1. 2026-10-05 21:09 · r/AI_Agents
    An agent got stuck in a loop and burned $4,700 of a customer's budget overnight

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