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Your AI agent needs a brake pedal: stopping loops and runaway cost at runtime

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AI agents fail in boring, expensive ways. They repeat the same step all night. They run up an API bill. They delete something nobody told them to touch. The public incident reports from 2026 are already piling up: a coding agent that edited 48,218 files in 103 seconds, and a production database and…

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  1. 2026-10-12 17:37 · DEV Community — AI
    Your AI agent needs a brake pedal: stopping loops and runaway cost at runtime

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