Reddit: an agent marked failed uploads as done — verification lessons
shopchief · reddit · 2026-11-13
A developer running publishing agents shares that the real failure mode isn't wrong answers but tasks marked done too early: one run returned a valid upload ID, yet 36 seconds later the platform showed the item unavailable — 5 of 7 attempts had failed the same way while looking successful. He now defines "done" as three checks: write returns an ID, an independent read confirms the platform agrees, and a human can open it — catching two more bad runs in the same week. Open question: should verification intensity scale with visibility/irreversibility, or be uniform?
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