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This article addresses the critical need for default hard budget caps in AI agent infrastructure to prevent runaway costs from coding agents and paid APIs. While the piece touches on cloud provider policies like AWS, its primary focus is on the financial safety mechanisms required as AI automation scales, making it relevant to AI Safety and operational reliability rather than general consumer tech or networking standards.

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We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

Simon WillisonOctober 3, 20263 min read

Here’s a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps. I’m talking about the feature of pay-by-usage services and APIs that lets you say “after $X/month, cut this thing off and return errors”. These need to be hard limits. Soft…

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