AI Engineer · November 10, 2026

Agent job storms: deduplicate triggers and enforce fair admission

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Harvey describes overload from duplicate alerts and a user flooding its cloud-agent platform. The team joined repeated alerts to existing investigations and added a fair launch queue with visible waiting state. Scheduled automations gained failure cutoffs, budgets and expiry. Several changes happened together, so the talk cannot attribute the reliability improvement to one fix; merge capacity remained unresolved.

My takeaway: Load-test repeated alerts and large user submissions. Deduplicate investigations, enforce per-user or per-team concurrency, and reserve capacity for interactive work. Give unattended jobs explicit retry limits, budgets and expiry, then verify that exhausted jobs stop creating work.

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