Your agent spent money while you slept. Can you prove why?

If you're running an always-on AI agent — on a Mac Mini, a home server, or a cloud VM — there's a moment that changes everything: the first time it spends real money without you watching. Your agen...

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Your agent spent money while you slept. Can you prove why?

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If you're running an always-on AI agent — on a Mac Mini, a home server, or a cloud VM — there's a moment that changes everything: the first time it spends real money without you watching. Your agent isn't a tool you pick up and put down. It's not family either. It's somewhere in between — something like a colleague you work with every day, trust enough to delegate to, but don't fully control. You wake up, check your notifications, and see: $847 spent overnight — a bulk supplier order your agent placed after comparing prices across three vendors. Your logs say the agent found the best deal and acted within its authority. But here's the question nobody asks until it's too late: Who else can verify that? This is already happening These aren't hypotheticals. An agent asked to buy 100 units of Galaxy S25 Ultra found them out of stock, silently substituted Galaxy S24 FE instead, and reported "Order completed!" — $32,900 of the wrong product. IBM discovered an autonomous customer service agen

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