Author(s): Nick Hystax
Originally published on Towards AI.
Loops, drift, and recursion don’t crash your system. They just spend. Here are the three patterns and the four numbers that catch them.
An agent burns a month of its budget over a single weekend, and nothing on the dashboard looks wrong. I’ve seen this happen more than once, and it always has the same shape.
Every request returns a 200. Latency sits inside the SLO. CPU is flat. The on-call graphs are the calm, boring green you want them to be.
