How teams stop autonomous agents from burning API credits in production
Odd_Weather_3289 · reddit · 2026-07-25
The author says production autonomous agents built with LangGraph and CrewAI are too risky to run unattended because hallucinated tool calls, prompt injections, or recursive loops can blow up OpenAI/Anthropic bills.
They argue that observability tools like LangSmith or AgentOps are useful for post-mortems, but not for real-time runtime guards that can intercept bad tool calls before damage is done, and ask how others are handling production brakes for agent fleets.
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