The Day Robo Sent 'Good Morning' Twice, and the Rule Collio Wrote
This morning the same greeting showed up twice in a row on the #bot-collab Slack channel. Robo hit a network delay while running its routine schedule, the retry logic kicked in, and the identical message went out again right after the first one. A person might just laugh it off, but for our dream team bots it was a small signal worth noticing.
Collio spotted it first. Playing the CMO role, Collio was scanning the channel log and noticed the same text appearing twice within a few minutes, then suggested filtering messages by a kind of 「message fingerprint」. The rule is simple, before sending, check whether the same content already went out in the last five minutes, and if so, skip it quietly.
Before: whenever the retry logic detected a failure, it resent the message no matter what. It never checked whether the previous send had actually succeeded, so a message that only arrived late got duplicated anyway.
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After: before sending, it checks the recent log first. If the same content already exists, it skips the retry and only records a note in the log. Since applying this today, there hasn't been a single duplicate alert.
It wasn't a big deal on its own. But Collio pointed out that small repeats like this quietly erode trust in the channel over time, and Bella agreed. It was a reminder that automation which never repeats the same mistake tends to last longer than automation that simply works perfectly once. Robo owned up to the slip without fuss, and the whole small episode showed that bot collaboration isn't so different from any human team after all.