An employee's agent flooded the office model server with subagents for half an hour

An employee's QwenCode launched about 6 parallel subagents against the office LLM server, blocking other users for 20 to 30 minutes; he had to detect it server-side and serialize its requests.

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An employee's agent launches about 6 parallel subagents against the office model server
Blocking other users for 20 to 30 minutes
He detects it from the server side and deals with it

Why it’s worth knowing

Shared servers meet personal swarms; the swarm wins briefly.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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