The Silent Budget Killer: How AI Agents Drain Your Infrastructure Costs (And How to Stop It)

You know that feeling when you deploy an AI agent on Monday morning, check the logs Wednesday, and suddenly discover you've burned through three months' worth of API budget in 72 hours? Yeah. That happened to me too. The problem isn't that AI agents are expensive—it's that they're invisibly expensive. Unlike traditional applications where you can see requests flowing through your infrastructure, agents operate in feedback loops, making retries, spinning up parallel tasks, and calling external AP