Book me a table — Instinct hammered Resy at ~200 requests an hour and got its user blocked

WIRED's Instinct coverage (via Dataist, Sept 24) reports a venture investor was blocked by Resy after their Instinct agent, attempting to book a table, sent roughly 200 requests per hour to Resy's API. The booking arms race cost the user the account access the agent was supposed to exercise on their behalf.

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The agent didn't fail to get the table — it got the human banned from the platform for trying too hard.

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Summarized from a public post on dataist.ai. See the original ↗

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