I deleted 200 lines of Playwright waits and my automation got more stable
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Your automation isn't flaky because it's missing sleeps. It's flaky because you keep adding them. I spent my first weeks of browser automation treating Playwright like Selenium: time.sleep(2) after every click, wait_for_timeout sprinkled everywhere, and a wall of try/except around everything that m…
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- 2026-09-25 14:14 · DEV Community — AI
I deleted 200 lines of Playwright waits and my automation got more stable