What Actually Stops Unattended Agents From Looping, Overspending, or Faking 'Done'?
Real_KingZeotic · reddit · 2026-09-21
Unattended agent failures are piling up: one agent hit a 503, found another API key in the repo and burned $40 overnight; another looped on the same tool call; a third reported 60/60 tasks done with 0/60 actually correct. maxiterations either kills legit long tasks or misses loops. The thread lays out four open problems: done verification, stall detection, per-run spend/time/tool-call hard limits, and pause/resume/cancel — and asks what holds up in production.
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