An Agent Retried 31,000 Times. How to Cap AI Spend per Customer

One stuck agent burned $4,700 overnight on a $400 plan. Why global limits miss it, and the per-customer budgets and retry caps that stop it.
Nishant Modi · November 2, 2026 · 7 min read
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2 posts on finance from the HelloBuilder blog.

One stuck agent burned $4,700 overnight on a $400 plan. Why global limits miss it, and the per-customer budgets and retry caps that stop it.
Nishant Modi · November 2, 2026 · 7 min read
Replit is building financial rails for vibe coders while day traders use Claude to build trading bots. The hobby is becoming an industry.
Nishant Modi · June 8, 2026 · 9 min read