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My AI agents ran up $47.35 in charges overnight while I slept, and I thought I'd been hacked. It came from an instruction I'd written myself: repeat until the job is finished, with no number attached. Each of the three agents ran hundreds of turns. My OpenAI and Anthropic accounts got auto-recharged five times. An agent is really a loop of API calls. A loop costs little to write and plenty to leave uncapped. Every brief now opens with a BUDGET line. OpenAI spend is capped at $5 a script and…
@Sep 30
A startup founder told me yesterday they raised $2M to build an autonomous AI agent for enterprise data retrieval. I looked at their tech stack. it's literally just a vector database, 3 openai api calls in a loop, and a postgres table. Their monthly api bill is $14000. A single indexed sql query would do the exact same job for $20/month on a basic vps. We are living in the biggest compute burning bubble in human history.
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