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[HN] Ask HN: How are you keeping AI coding agents from burning money?

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A developer is facing escalating costs from AI coding agents due to excessive retries and a lack of granular cost visibility from current tools. Existing platforms only provide aggregate usage data, making it difficult to pinpoint cost drivers. To mitigate this, the developer built a custom logging layer to track costs per individual request, associating them with specific agents, tasks, and users, and to enforce basic spending limits.

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