AI article
An LLM read the same page four times: 18 departures, 18, 18, then 1
Community description: How My Trip's competitor feed stopped an AI's bad reading from becoming a false "sold out": each page is read up to three times, and a departure counts only when two readings agree.
Dev.to | Nov 5, 2026 | Yoseph Eikelman
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If two of three readings fail outright, demanding two votes throws away everything the third read, and the page reports zero departures. Two pages read 18, 18, 18, 1 and 15, 15, 1, 1 departures; one row's status flipped to waitlist Runs twice a week. 1 Nov 2026: 383 pages read, 178 settled after two identical readings, 205 needed a third; 15–19% saved over three runs 10 tests hold the vote and the skip rule, all passing on 1 Nov 2026.
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