Wasting hundreds on API credits with runaway agents is basically a rite of passage at this point. Here's mine.

I'm starting to think this is a shared experience now. Everyone I know building with agentic AI has the same quiet confession tucked somewhere in their git history. The weekend they left an agent running unsupervised. The invoice that arrived on Monday. The forensic work trying to figure out what it actually did. Mine was over 400 dollars across two days. My agent rephrased the same research task to itself for forty eight hours and produced nothing. Felt like I'd been mugged by a very polite philosopher. After the third time this happened I stopped being annoyed and started being curious.