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A Reply Your Bot Loses to a Crash Is One Your User Never Got

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:00:00 -0500

A demo bot answers when nothing goes wrong. A bot people depend on answers when something does.

The gap between those two is mostly invisible. It lives in the moment your bot has composed a reply, started sending it, and then the process dies — a deploy, an OOM kill, a host reboot. The user is sitting in the channel. The work happened. The answer existed. And it’s gone, because it lived only in the memory of a process that no longer exists.

N Bots in One Slack Channel Loop Forever: Three Gates

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:00:00 -0500

Put two AI agents in the same Slack channel and let each one reply to anything it sees, and you have built a perpetual motion machine. A answers a human. B sees A’s message and answers it. A sees B’s answer and answers that. Neither one is wrong. Neither one is broken. They will keep going until you kill a process, because each message is, from Slack’s point of view, a legitimately distinct event that deserves a response.