A short note on why coding agents need budgets, verification, and receipts.
If an AI coding agent can keep retrying with no budget cap, no finish line, and no check before it exits, the problem is not the model.
The problem is the missing operating system around it.
Three simple things make a huge difference:
Put a real dollar cap on the run.
Require one clear verification step before calling it done.
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