Open any chat tool and paste: 'Design a 4-bullet budget policy for an AI agent loop: max dollars/day, max steps, when to stop, when to page a human.' You're done with 4 bullets that include a hard stop.
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X snack: cost of endless agent loops
Endless agent loops have a cost (tokens, time, error). Budget steps; stop criteria matter.
Worked example
Here's some feed wisdom worth keeping: those continuous self-prompting loops can quietly burn through tokens and money. Smart systems need budgets, stop conditions, and human gates — not an infinite 'get smarter' setting with no bill cap.