Tokenmaxxing is becoming a production incident category. How are you capping AI agent spend?
Summary
AI agents are causing runaway token consumption, turning overspend into a production incident category. The article highlights cases like a single engineer's $1.3M OpenAI bill and Uber burning its annual AI budget in four months, and asks the community how they are capping agent spending.
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