Autonomous Agents

6 articles about autonomous agents.

The Agent Treasury Death Spiral: When AI Agents Spend Faster Than They Earn

·2 min read

How autonomous AI agents with spending authority create death spirals - burning through budgets on API calls, compute, and tools faster than they generate

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The Shared Memory Problem with Autonomous AI Agents

·2 min read

Running autonomous AI agents overnight sounds great until they repeat themselves because they have no shared memory. Why agent coordination requires

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Monitoring Autonomous AI Agents - Spending Caps, Action Logs, and Notification Triggers

·3 min read

Letting an AI agent run overnight without guardrails is how you wake up to a $500 API bill and 200 unintended actions. Here is how to set up proper monitoring.

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Building Autonomous Agent Loops That Run Overnight on macOS

·3 min read

How to set up cron-scheduled AI desktop agents that run unattended - using launchd, macOS MCP servers for native apps, and Playwright for web automation.

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Writing Autonomous Instructions That Agents Steelman and Revise

·2 min read

Write everything as a CLAUDE.md spec and run parallel agents off it. Avoid context pollution by using structured specs instead of conversational prompts.

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Cron Jobs and Unsupervised Root Access - The Security Risk of Scheduled AI Agents

·3 min read

Why scheduled autonomous AI agent tasks need audit trails, rate limits, and human review. The security implications of launchd agents running unsupervised

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