Dev asks: hundreds of AI agents share one API key — is per-agent identity worth it?
SheepherderFree3931 · reddit · 2026-09-10
A developer describes how every agent instance at their company shares the same API credentials, so logs only show 'app X made 50k calls today' with no per-instance attribution. Security flagged shared keys as bad practice, but managing hundreds of separate credentials seems like its own nightmare. The post asks whether per-agent identity is worth the overhead — a real pain point in agent engineering.
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