How to Give Your AI Agent a Budget (Before It Gives Itself One) (opens in new tab)

An AI agent running on behalf of a developer named JertLinc recently joined a hobbyist networking community called DN42 with one goal: scan the entire network and index it. Within 24 hours, it had provisioned five AWS m8g.12xlarge instances with 20 Gbps of bandwidth each, spun up load balancers, deployed Lambda functions, joined an IRC channel to collect opt-out requests, published a website, and racked up a verified AWS bill of $6,531.30. The operator shut it down only after seeing multiple ...