Excessive API token usage by AI agent

An AI agent caused a massive API token bill due to issues like infinite retry loops, highlighting the need for better safeguards and monitoring.

Updated: 4/6/2026
The AI agent caused a 1.4 billion token API bill, with 90% of the tokens not doing any real work. The main issues were infinite retry loops and lack of circuit breakers, demonstrating the need for better safeguards and monitoring when granting AI agents access to development environments.

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