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My WhatsApp bot failed for days while its reports said success

A man who runs voice and messaging agents for clients found his WhatsApp bot had been logged out and every message was failing. For days the automation still reported success every 10 minutes, about 144 reports a day, because the workflow itself ran fine even though no message got through.

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How it works

  1. The WhatsApp bot gets logged out
  2. Every message fails
  3. The automation keeps running on schedule and reports success every 10 minutes, about 144 times a day
  4. He finds the failure days later

Why it’s worth knowing

Nothing in the system was lying on purpose. The run finished, so the report said success, 144 times a day, while every real message hit a wall.

Where it’s from

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

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