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An early agent failure left an API bill

Demetrios Brinkmann recalls Baby AGI becoming stuck in a recursive loop and producing an $80 OpenAI API bill. The experience left him skeptical of agents at the time.

Demetrios Brinkmann·Published

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Computer-Use Agents and the Future of the Agentic Internet

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I remember using, what was it, like, baby AGI back in the day and just getting mad because all it did was give me so it got stuck in a recursive loop, and I got, like, a $80 API bill from OpenAI. And it was like, these agents don't work, dude. What's going on?

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