His team moved their ops work into agent skills; a usage cap and buggy scripts shut it down

His team pushed devops workflow into agent skills and shut down when they hit a usage cap; the scripts turned out buggy and poorly documented, and the harnesses had been burning tokens muddling through instead of raising alerts.

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His team pushes their devops workflow into agent skills
Shuts down when they hit a usage cap
The scripts turn out buggy and poorly documented

Why it’s worth knowing

A cap is a cliff, and the workflow walked off it.

Where it’s from

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

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