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Twelve Tool Calls, Then Stop: A Bootcamp Lab on Agent Loop Budgets

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If your coding agent can call tools forever, you are not learning agents. You are babysitting a slot machine. Cap the loop. Trace every call. Fail closed when the budget hits zero. That is the lab. Cheap model access does not make an unbounded agent cheap. It makes the mess faster. You still pay in…

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  1. 2026-09-04 13:09 · DEV Community — AI
    Twelve Tool Calls, Then Stop: A Bootcamp Lab on Agent Loop Budgets

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