LLM Budget Caps That Hold Under Concurrency: Why 20 Agents "Under Budget" Still Blow the Bill
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Spin up 20 agents against a $50 budget. Each one checks spent before calling the model, and each one passes, because none of the other 19 have reported their usage yet. A few seconds later you're at $71. Every agent behaved correctly and the budget still broke. This is the failure I see most in hom…
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- 2026-10-19 08:57 · DEV Community — AI
LLM Budget Caps That Hold Under Concurrency: Why 20 Agents "Under Budget" Still Blow the Bill