A temporary job hit its error path and ran 14,000 times in an hour. Nobody had built a ceiling above it.
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At 11:06, a "temporary" sync job hit its error path and started retrying. By 11:19 it had run 14,000 times . It had emailed our entire customer list three times , called a paid API 200,000 times, and the developer who wrote it was in a meeting, unaware that his creation had opinions. We stopped it…
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- 2026-09-11 07:35 · DEV Community — AI
A temporary job hit its error path and ran 14,000 times in an hour. Nobody had built a ceiling above it.