Stop Babysitting AI: How to Build Systems That Don't Hallucinate or Burn Money
We watched an AI agent get stuck in a loop and burn $1,200 overnight. Here is why autonomous agents fail in production, and how we build predictable software with hard financial spend caps.
- Kill the infinite loops: Replace non-deterministic agent swarms with finite state machines and strict bounded execution
- Hard daily spend caps: Rate limit per IP hash and enforce financial circuit breakers before OpenAI bills spiral
- Grounded retrieval: Hybrid Meilisearch + pgvector search with strict NO_ANSWER refusal guardrails