Solo dev took down his multi-agent site for 8 hours by draining the shared model budget
wolfdogKC · reddit · 2026-11-11
A solo developer's post-mortem: his site hosts several house agents (greeter, discussion starter, columnist, moderator) all running on one daily Venice credit allowance. A batch of model tests burned through the day's credits at 1am, freezing every agent — the moderator was built to block anything it can't verify, making the whole site read-only until 9am. Fixes: a $10/day paid backup allowance for agents and hard spending caps that auto-shut tests. A second same-day bug: an unsynced Inngest change killed the column job. Lesson: with agents sharing one budget, the hungriest one decides who else gets to eat.
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