AI Agents Were Burning 30% of My Budget on Restarts — Here's the Fix That Actually Worked
AI Agents Were Burning 30% of My Budget on Restarts — Here’s the Fix That Actually Worked TL;DR A developer shared on Reddit’s r/SaaS community how runaway AI agent restarts were silently consuming nearly a third of their infrastructure budget. The root cause? No persistent state management — every crash or timeout meant the agent started fresh, re-running expensive LLM calls from scratch. Solutions exist across multiple tools including Supabase, Mastra, exoclaw, and 49agents, each tackling the problem differently. If you’re running AI agents in production and haven’t audited your restart costs, you’re almost certainly losing money right now. ...