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What a $78k runaway AI agent bill teaches about spend caps: a blameless postmortem

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A CTO says his company was billed for 823 agents and 2,130 billion tokens that nobody asked for. Would your setup have noticed on day 1? This is a blameless look at that incident. Everything below is the author's own account in a public Hacker News thread, and I have not verified it. The root cause…

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  1. 2026-10-27 10:21 · DEV Community — AI
    What a $78k runaway AI agent bill teaches about spend caps: a blameless postmortem

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