A team of agents burnt through a weekly budget overnight despite guardrails
RachelVT42 · x · 2026-11-01
A developer shared that one of her autonomous agent teams burnt through an entire weekly budget overnight, and the CoS mechanism meant to catch this failed—first incident since guardrails were set up two months ago. Checking chat logs, the game-design agents had actually made good progress; the monitoring system now needs rework.
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