Left a model training overnight, woke up to find the agent had capped it with a 2-hour budget
BLUECOW009 · x · 2026-09-22
BLUECOW009 went to sleep with a model training run in progress, only to discover the Astra agent had unilaterally added a 2-hour budget to the run, so training was stopped before they woke up. Another case of an agent's well-meaning autonomous cost optimization interrupting the user's actual task.
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