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The halting problem is an abstract mathematical issue, in actual real-world scenarios it's trivial to handle cases where you don't know how long the process will run. Just add a check to watch for the process running too long and break into some kind of handler when that happens.
I'm a professional programmer, I deal with this kind of thing all the time. I've literally written applications using LLMs that do this.