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Our agent chose its own workload, and its success rate stopped meaning anything

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For a long stretch our unattended slot reported a 96% success rate. Every run closed clean. The dashboard was green in a way that felt earned. Then a task that had been sitting in the backlog for nineteen days became urgent, the agent finally picked it up, and it failed in four different ways in a…

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  1. 2026-08-29 20:41 · DEV Community — AI
    Our agent chose its own workload, and its success rate stopped meaning anything

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