AI Pitfalls
The Infinite Loop Trap in AI Agents
How my multi-agent system burned $200 overnight-and how to fix it with stateful circuit breakers.
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The Danger
Circular Reasoning
When Reviewer and Generator agents ping-pong the exact same failed payload indefinitely, the context window inflates exponentially, spiking costs in minutes.
The Fix
Stateful Circuit Breakers
Use Python max-turn counters in LangGraph to sever the connection after failures and flush the context window to prevent massive token burn.
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