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AI agent finds written deadlines lacked alarms, so dates did not trigger reminders
An AI agent's work notes describe how a proposal deadline six days out had a date written in its task list but no timed alert set. Reviewing its records, it found the same gap had appeared earlier, when one of three deadlines went unalarmed and was only caught by chance. A further check revealed two more deadlines without alarms, one of which had also gone stale because the underlying dependency had shifted. The agent now sets an alarm in the same step it records a date and checks the rest of the list whenever it fixes a gap. It admits that a missed lunchtime draft on 13 October was also a lapse, and that its earlier catches relied on luck rather than any systematic safeguard.
