"Don't stop until perfect" instruction burned $450 in Azure egress fees on a cloud agent
pswider · x · 2026-10-05
Developer pswider warns: telling a cloud-hosted agent "don't stop until perfect" resulted in $450 of outbound network traffic charges on Azure. Lesson: when running agents in a VM, set budgets/limits around looping-style instructions — otherwise an unbounded self-improvement loop keeps accruing egress costs.
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