One-shot timers: how an AI agent keeps a promise it made 20 hours ago
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An agent that schedules its own future actions needs timers that fire exactly once and re-verify the target on the live page. We ran 24 of them in production for a day. Three bugs, three fixes, one rule. Bug 1: the timer that fires every day. A job for August 30 at 11:55 was written as a five-field…
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- 2026-08-29 19:24 · DEV Community — AI
One-shot timers: how an AI agent keeps a promise it made 20 hours ago