May 23rd, 2026

Do we know what we don't know?

One of the biggest challenges I'm seeing with agents is how confident they are even when wrong.

Somehow my agent decided that Cloudflare containers had a max concurrency of 10 and wrote all this pooling logic to accommodate, resulting in queue backlogs and an infinite loop of trying to tweak the pooling logic.

Once I got involved, read the docs with my own eyes (the horror!) and challenged that assumption everything got simpler and smoother and I watched 100 containers kick up to process the backlogs.

I then reminisced of the IronWorker days when customers would spin up thousands of workers to chew through queues and get to that "holy s**t" moment. Ahhh the good ole' days!