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I cut my bots' wakeups from about 300 a week to about 140

Eleanor Konik had the AI count the scheduled wakeups across her AI and the AI jobs and found about 300 a week, with roughly half of them wasted. One round of checking, done with AI's help, got the count to about 140 a week with no coverage lost, and about 128 of the old wakeups were just a bot noticing it was 2 AM or a Saturday and going back to sleep.

How it works

  1. The AI counts about 300 agent wakeups a week across her jobs
  2. About half are waste
  3. 128 a week are an inbox check waking at 2 AM or on Saturdays just to go back to sleep
  4. Jobs get moved to the hours they actually work in, mail checks ride inside check-ins that already wake, and jobs that fire together get merged
  5. Count drops to about 140 a week with no coverage lost

Why it’s worth knowing

She used one agent to audit how her agents spend money. Half the cost was jobs waking up just to check the time.

Where it’s from

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

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