AI agents can turn a small cloud experiment into an expensive runaway workload before anyone notices. Hard budget caps, isolated projects, and agent-level limits create a safer default for autonomous software.
Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash is designed for long-running coding and agentic tasks, while Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber focuses on finding and patching vulnerabilities for trusted defenders. The practical story is a balance of reasoning depth, tool use, cost, and safety controls.