Half a 20X agent plan burned in 90 minutes, two weeks to untangle the mess
Yamapama · x · 2026-10-09
The developer quantifies the damage: 90 minutes burned through 50% of a 20X plan with nothing accomplished, leaving a mess that took two weeks to untangle. The root cause was 8 parallel Astra max threads ignoring the dependency chain.
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