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5 minutes daily for the people running the agents.

A free daily email for indie devs running ≥2 AI agents in production. What broke, what shipped, what to read. Dry, forensic, no fluff.

[ incident ]

What broke

One real production failure, dissected. Symptom, root cause, the rule that transfers to your stack. The post-mortem you'd write if you had the time.

[ release ]

What shipped

The agent-ops tool, framework, or model update that actually matters this week — and the one-line reason it's on your radar or safe to ignore.

[ signal ]

What to read

One climate signal from the agent ecosystem: a thread, a benchmark, a shift in how people are building. Curated, not aggregated.

$ cat issues/001.md

incident

"One task retried itself 319 times"

A rate limit reset a task to ready with no ceiling. The same task spawned. And spawned. And spawned — 319 times before anyone noticed the ID in the log.

The retry primitive had no monotonic counter and no terminal state, so "fail" meant "reset to ready," not "stop trying." One upstream outage away from a six-figure invoice. You've shipped this bug too — in a cron job that re-enqueues on error, or a pod that crash-loops at full speed.

The rule: every retry needs a hard ceiling and a real terminal state. Rate-limit errors, auth errors, and logic errors are three different classes — don't share a retry path between them.

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