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Spotting Runaway AI Agent Loops Early: Spend Spikes as an Alarm

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An AI coding agent stuck in a loop is quiet. It does not crash. It keeps reading files, running tests, editing the same function and re-running the tests, and every iteration costs tokens. By the time you come back from lunch, a ten-minute task has turned into a long, expensive session with nothing…

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  1. 2026-10-25 12:08 · DEV Community — AI
    Spotting Runaway AI Agent Loops Early: Spend Spikes as an Alarm

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