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My AI agent burned $60 in one day
A small agent experiment produced a $60 bill in one day. Predictable costs suddenly mattered a lot more.
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An expensive first day
I switched an agent experiment to token-based API billing and spent $60 on its first day. The work was an experiment; the bill was very real.
That experience pushed me to think harder about the cost of a running agent and how predictable I wanted that cost to be.