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My Agent Emailed 200 Customers Twice at 1:30 AM. The Lock File I Added Couldn't Have Stopped It.

At 1:31 AM on the first Sunday of November, my phone buzzed with a customer email that just said: "did you mean to send this twice?" I read it on the kitchen counter, half asleep, and assumed they meant they'd received last week's digest again — an IMAP sync quirk I'd seen before. Then I opened my…

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  1. 2026-11-01 01:01 · DEV Community — AI
    My Agent Emailed 200 Customers Twice at 1:30 AM. The Lock File I Added Couldn't Have Stopped It.

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