My AI Agent Hung on a Single HTTP Request for 14 Hours. I Told Everyone It Was "Running a Long Task."
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For most of a Tuesday, my agent dashboard showed one job in state running . I glanced at it three times and felt a small, smug satisfaction — look at it go, grinding through a big batch while I do other things. It wasn't grinding. It had been sitting on one requests.get() call to a flaky third-part…
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- 2026-09-26 01:02 · DEV Community — AI
My AI Agent Hung on a Single HTTP Request for 14 Hours. I Told Everyone It Was "Running a Long Task."