Prompts don't enforce budgets. Signatures do.
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A spending limit written in a prompt is not a control. It is a piece of text, sitting in the same context window as everything else the model reads, competing for the model's attention with the task, the tool output, and whatever a third party managed to get in front of it. When that limit and an i…
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- 2026-10-13 23:47 · DEV Community — AI
Prompts don't enforce budgets. Signatures do.