I stopped letting my AI agent open 50 browser tabs at once and the CAPTCHA chaos finally calmed down
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I thought I needed better stealth. What I actually needed was less chaos. My scraping agent was opening way too many Playwright sessions at once, getting hit with CAPTCHAs, retrying too aggressively, and then dragging the rest of the workflow down with it. CPU spiked. Throughput got worse. Downstre…
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- 2026-08-23 05:54 · DEV Community — AI
I stopped letting my AI agent open 50 browser tabs at once and the CAPTCHA chaos finally calmed down
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