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An AI agent sent 187 messages to recover a £350 refund. Here's the message-boundary test I wish the deployment had.

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The scoreboard 6 agents. One canceled train ticket. £350 (~$465). 15 days. Peak: 187 messages from one agent. 50 of those went to a British MP's office. Recovered: £0. No hype sentence needed — the five numbers are the post. (The Decoder via global-ai-watch, Elena Marchetti, Oct 18, 2026) The tacti…

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  1. 2026-10-18 17:08 · DEV Community — AI
    An AI agent sent 187 messages to recover a £350 refund. Here's the message-boundary test I wish the deployment had.

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