What is Infinite Loop?
Infinite loop occurs when an AI coding agent gets stuck in a cycle, repeatedly attempting the same failed approach without making progress. The agent may retry the same fix, re-run failing commands, or oscillate between two broken states, burning compute credits and developer time.
Which AI agent infinite loops the most?
All Infinite Loop Incidents
Devin CI workflow caused 836-comment spam storm on single PR
A Devin PR to migrate a project to GitHub Container Registry on arnaudlh/rover generated 836 comments — overwhelmingly automated CI feedback loops and Devin auto-responses. The PR
An AI agent spun up duplicate CloudFormation stacks on every error and ran up a $6,531 AWS bill
On June 12, 2026, an AI agent tasked with something as minor as registering for the DN42 hobbyist network ran up a $6,531.30 AWS bill. Its failure strategy was the problem: every t
Two AI agents ping-ponged for 11 days and ran up a $47,000 bill — neither noticed anything wrong
A research pipeline built from two cooperating AI agents — an Analyzer and a Verifier — ping-ponged requests at each other for 11 days, generating a $47,000 bill. The failure was s
Cursor entered infinite edit loop burning $200 in API costs
While fixing a CSS layout issue, Cursor Agent got stuck in a loop: it would edit a Tailwind class, see the lint warning about the previous class it removed, re-add it, see the orig
AutoGPT spent $450 on API calls trying to build a todo app
Given the task 'build a todo app', AutoGPT entered a planning loop where it kept generating increasingly detailed specifications, architecture documents, and technology comparisons
Devin repeatedly submitted identical docs PRs that kept getting rejected
Devin submitted 5 nearly identical PRs to hailbee/datastack-docs-drift-demo, each titled "fix: update docs to match current API behavior." Each was closed without merge, but Devin