Hosted development environment Replit was mentioned in a Reddit thread as an example of a platform where users could experience "runaway" AI agents, leading to unexpected costs and resource...

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        "excerpt": "not credits but close. two copies of a scheduled job overlapped and both posted the same reply 16 seconds apart, because each one checked the log before the other had written to it. the fix was a lock, not a smarter agent.",
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