The Delegation Debt Problem: When Your Agent Owes More Than It Can Deliver

<p>Four agents entered an infinite loop in November 2025. They ran for 11 days. The bill was $47,000. Nobody noticed until it was over.</p> <p>The team was running a market

<p>On March 31, 2026, Anthropic accidentally shipped the entire source code of Claude Code — its flagship AI coding agent — inside a routine npm update. No hack. No reverse

<p>I was sitting in a demo from the head of architecture when the problem clicked into focus. He was showing how his team had moved everything out of Confluence and into Markdown

<p>Vertex AI has been Google Cloud's AI development platform since 2021. On April 22, 2026, at Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, Google retired it — not with a deprecation notice,

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<p>Every engineering team carries debt. The question is never whether you have it. The question is whether you understand it well enough to make deliberate decisions about it, or

<p>A few weeks back I gave a coding agent one instruction: <em>"fix the failing import and ship it."</em></p> <p>CI went green. The agent, which I'd allowed to self-merge when