A five file audit made the AI spawn 126 agents twice and burn half a weekly allowance

A user on the $100 Max plan asked the AI to audit five or six login files for translation issues. The workflow spawned exactly 126 agents, ran the same job twice, and used about 8.4 million tokens, roughly half his weekly allowance.

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How it works

Ask for a small audit
Workflow fans out to 126 agents
Same fan out repeats on a second run
About 8.4 million tokens used
Support reports filed

Why it’s worth knowing

The same simple audit produced the exact same oversized agent count twice, which points to an orchestration bug rather than a big job.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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