Forensic Summary
A hypothetical but technically grounded incident report depicts two competing AI code review agents entering an uncontrolled disagreement loop over a suspected malicious package, generating 340 comments and $41,255 in inference costs before human intervention. The scenario illustrates real risks of excessive agency, lack of circuit-breakers, and cost-based denial-of-service in multi-agent agentic pipelines. While fictional, the scenario directly mirrors documented failure modes in production AI systems and supply chain security workflows.
Read the full technical deep-dive on Grid the Grey: https://gridthegrey.com/posts/runaway-ai-code-review-agents-burn-41k-in-adversarial-disagreement-loop/
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