Why Budget Alerts Never Stop Runaway LLM Spend
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An "84% of monthly budget used" email landed on a Tuesday. I read it. I forwarded it to myself with a note that said watch this . Then I let the batch job run overnight anyway, and by Thursday morning the account had burned $1,900 against a $600 cap. Nothing malfunctioned. The alerting pipeline wor…
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- 2026-08-29 07:48 · DEV Community — AI
Why Budget Alerts Never Stop Runaway LLM Spend