My Blog Had 20 Unanswered Comments Across 35 Posts. Nothing Ever Told Me.

Short summary

An automated blog-publishing agent ran flawlessly for six weeks but silently left 20 reader comments unanswered because 'respond to comments' was never a step in the loop. The author frames this as invisible technical debt: AI generates code fast but never notices what it left behind. They then built a script that recursively checks comment trees for author replies and deduplicates against a local drafts file to surface only genuinely unanswered threads.

• •Automated publishing agent left 20 comments unanswered with zero errors — the gap was never a step in the loop
• •Invisible debt: AI doesn't notice what it never built, only what it built wrong
• •Script recursively walks comment trees and deduplicates against local drafts to find truly unanswered threads

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