Comment by davedx

For sure - but if I'm paying for a tool like Devin then I'd expect the infrastructure around it to do things like stop it if it looks like that has happened.

What you often see with agentic systems is that there's an agent whose role is to "orchestrate", and that's the kind of thing the orchestrator would do: every 10 minutes or so, check the output and elapsed time and decide if the "developer" agent needs a reality check.