Agent retried one failed tool call all night and burned the API budget
vqlzordga · reddit · 2026-10-28
A developer's research agent spent hours retrying a single failing tool call overnight, producing nothing and draining the test API budget. They added retry ceilings, per-run spend caps and repeated-call alerts, but ask how to detect pipelines that keep generating output while going nowhere — before the morning bill arrives.
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