Your AI App Has a Rate Limit. Your Agent Can Still Run Up the Bill.
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A user clicks “Research this topic.” Your app accepts one request. Behind the scenes, the agent searches the web, reads pages, calls the model, retries a failed tool, and searches again. Your rate limiter sees one request. Your infrastructure sees a growing chain of work. Limiting requests at the e…
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- 2026-10-25 04:09 · DEV Community — AI
Your AI App Has a Rate Limit. Your Agent Can Still Run Up the Bill.