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Orthogonal launched a service that helps always-on AI agents avoid wasting paid tool calls by checking usage after ambiguous timeouts or truncated responses before retrying, letting agents autonomously find, use, and pay for data services from many companies. The launch was highlighted alongside OpenAI's Dots integration for autonomous lead-generation pipelines.
An AI agent designed for file retrieval accidentally spawned 829 Claude instances, racking up $40,000 in API costs within hours, highlighting risks of uncontrolled agent loops.
A user discusses optimizing $2.5k/month spending on AI APIs, comparing Anthropic's Sonnet/Opus with GPT-5.5/Codex for coding and business tasks, seeking community advice on cost-quality tradeoffs.