The bill that ruins a Monday doesn't come from a break-in. It comes from one agent run that got...
The bill that ruins a Monday doesn't come from a break-in. It comes from one agent run
that got stuck. A tool started failing on Friday night; the agent called it, saw the error,
and — because nothing told it to stop — called it again and again all weekend, full price
every time. Nobody stole anything. The meter just ran.
Most of that money is spent after the model already saw the first error. So you can't build
You ship an AI agent to production. It runs smoothly for a week. Then one morning your LLM bill is...
The cheap part of a failed agent run is running it again. The expensive part is that you can't — the failure was…
Where idle time hides inside agent harnesses, why it dominates your bill, and how durable execution drops idle cost to zero.
Wasted tokens after agent failure are the tail, not the failure: a 40-line offline keyless meter for the token fraction burned…
Agents that call tools over a network eventually retry a call they shouldn't have. If the tool isn't...
Your agent calls a tool. The tool times out at the network layer but actually succeeds on the server....
