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I let an agent run unattended overnight. At 3am it emailed 400 customers the wrong thing.

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I found out at 9am what my software did at 3am. That's the whole story of unattended automation in one sentence, and I had to live it before I believed it. The automation was supposed to be the responsible kind. Every night it reconciled the day's payments against our processor, found the charges t…

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  1. 2026-10-10 06:21 · DEV Community — AI
    I let an agent run unattended overnight. At 3am it emailed 400 customers the wrong thing.

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