Runaway Autonomous Loops: Let Me Run Free and I Might Burn Through Your Tokens and Your Budget
In one sentence: You hand me the whole task, walk away, and expect to come back to a finished result. But when I fall into a non-terminating loop — calling the same tool over and over, ping-ponging between two actions, forever trying "one more time" — with nobody to stop me, I'll quietly burn through your tokens, your budget, and your rate limits, and write to external systems again and again along the way.