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Stop Using sleep() in Your Agent Loops: Event-Driven AI Agent Scheduling

DEV.to AIΒ·April 23, 2026

This article criticizes the common use of `sleep()` in AI agent loops, pointing out its costs in terms of API budget waste, high latency, and masked failures. It advocates for event-driven scheduling as a superior alternative to optimize costs and performance at scale.

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