What happens when an LLM loop runs away: the guardrail pattern
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Nobody budgets for the runaway loop. Every AI SaaS has a line item for "expected LLM spend" and nobody has a line item for "the Friday night a bug turned our agent into a money printer." I've seen the second one. Here's the pattern that prevents it. The scenario You ship a "deep research" agent end…
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- 2026-09-30 17:48 · DEV Community — AI
What happens when an LLM loop runs away: the guardrail pattern