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The article explains how agent loops become expensive because each step re-sends accumulated context, and advocates for capping costs at the gateway rather than in prompts to prevent unbounded spending.
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.