Simon Willison asks for hard budget caps by default, citing coding agents

TL;DR

• On 3 October Simon Willison argued that pay-per-use services need hard budget caps on by default, because coding agents make it easy to spin up code that costs money.
• AWS added per-project spend limits on 16 September, which it is releasing to a limited number of customers, and Google Cloud's Spend Caps cover four services in public preview.
• AWS keeps a paused project's data, but deletes it if you take no action within 90 days.