My AI agents had a bug that no test could catch: a job nobody's instructions knew about

Description and use

<p>I run my companies with a standing fleet of 13 AI agents and no employees. Each agent has a written contract, a schedule and a run log. They hand work to each other through queues, and every item they touch lands in one append-only ledger.</p> <p>In August the fleet went quiet in a way that looked healthy. Nothing crashed. Every agent ran on time and wrote its log. And for ten days, a job I had asked for simply did not happen.</p> <h2> What went wrong </h2> <p>I had decided that one agent should draft a daily alert and another, the one that builds my morning summary, should show it to me. T

Problem

<p>I run my companies with a standing fleet of 13 AI agents and no employees. Each agent has a written contract, a schedule and a run log. They hand work to each other through queues, and every item they touch lands in one append-only ledger.</p> <p>In August the fleet went quiet in a way that looked healthy. Nothing crashed. Every agent ran on time and wrote its log. And for ten days, a job I had asked for simply did not happen.</p> <h2> What went wrong </h2> <p>I had decided that one agent should draft a daily alert and another, the one that builds my morning summary, should show it to me. T

Outcome

<p>I run my companies with a standing fleet of 13 AI agents and no employees. Each agent has a written contract, a schedule and a run log. They hand work to each other through queues, and every item they touch lands in one append-only ledger.</p> <p>In August the fleet went quiet in a way that looked healthy. Nothing crashed. Every agent ran on time and wrote its log. And for ten days, a job I had asked for simply did not happen.</p> <h2> What went wrong </h2> <p>I had decided that one agent should draft a daily alert and another, the one that builds my morning summary, should show it to me. T

Evidence

My AI agents had a bug that no test could catch: a job nobody's instructions knew about

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