An autonomous agent burned $40 of API credits overnight — the 3-line guard that stopped it
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An autonomous agent burned $40 of API credits overnight — the 3-line guard that stopped it Autonomous agents are great until one gets stuck in a retry loop at 2am. Last month an agent I run burned $40 of API credits in a single night because a single while loop retried a failed call forever. No pla…
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- 2026-09-24 21:36 · DEV Community — AI
An autonomous agent burned $40 of API credits overnight — the 3-line guard that stopped it