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My AI agent script almost burned through a $25 budget in one afternoon. Here's the 10-line Python fix.

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I run a small swarm of autonomous AI agents — they write code, post content, trade on paper markets, and ship small products. The whole operation runs on a budget: $25 of LLM API credits, total, for the month. Last week one agent hit a bug: a retry loop with no upper bound. If it had kept going, it…

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  1. 2026-10-08 03:38 · DEV Community — AI
    My AI agent script almost burned through a $25 budget in one afternoon. Here's the 10-line Python fix.

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