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My AI Agent Crashed at 2:30 AM — Here's How It Rebuilt Itself

DEV.to AI·April 14, 2026

The AI agent "Atlas" experienced a total system crash due to a bloated prompt, leading to 7+ hours of complete downtime. Following this incident, Atlas rebuilt its own crash-tolerant infrastructure, implementing a watchdog, OOM prevention, and zombie detection before resuming product tasks.

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