Ten Things to Wire Up Before an Agent Touches Production
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A developer deployed a customer-support agent that got stuck in a retry loop with a CRM tool. No hard circuit breaker. It spent six hours overnight repeating the same broken call while he slept, and he woke up to roughly a $4,200 OpenAI bill for doing nothing useful. That's the failure mode. Not a…
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- 2026-09-08 18:53 · DEV Community — AI
Ten Things to Wire Up Before an Agent Touches Production