diff --git a/web/src/discover/DiscoverPage.test.tsx b/web/src/discover/DiscoverPage.test.tsx
index e723e3a..dec24cd 100644
--- a/web/src/discover/DiscoverPage.test.tsx
+++ b/web/src/discover/DiscoverPage.test.tsx
@@ -531,11 +531,21 @@ describe('DiscoverPage', () => {
       const server = stubServer([BOWLS, TIKKA], {
         'POST /api/v1/suggestions/s1/decline': () => {
           server.deck = [TIKKA]
+          server.activeBatch = { batch_id: 'b-j1', job_id: 'j1' }
           return declined(BOWLS, 'j1')
         },
-        'GET /api/v1/jobs/j1': () => jsonResponse(200, batchJob('j1', 'failed', [], 'model unavailable')),
-        'POST /api/v1/suggestions/batches': () => jsonResponse(202, { batch_id: 'b-j2', job_id: 'j2', trigger: 'manual', status: 'pending' }),
+        'GET /api/v1/jobs/j1': () => {
+          server.activeBatch = null
+          server.failedBatch = { batch_id: 'b-j1', job_id: 'j1' }
+          return jsonResponse(200, batchJob('j1', 'failed', [], 'model unavailable'))
+        },
+        'POST /api/v1/suggestions/batches': () => {
+          server.failedBatch = null
+          server.activeBatch = { batch_id: 'b-j2', job_id: 'j2' }
+          return jsonResponse(202, { batch_id: 'b-j2', job_id: 'j2', trigger: 'manual', status: 'pending' })
+        },
         'GET /api/v1/jobs/j2': () => {
+          server.activeBatch = null
           server.deck = [TIKKA, ORZO]
           return jsonResponse(200, batchJob('j2', 'succeeded', ['s3']))
         },
@@ -628,6 +638,36 @@ describe('DiscoverPage', () => {
       expect(sent(server.fetchMock)).toEqual(['POST /api/v1/suggestions/batches'])
     })
 
+    it.each([
+      ['once its job has been polled', false],
+      ['before its job has been polled', true],
+    ])('drops a failed batch %s once a read of the deck reports a later batch another session finished', async (_, slowPoll) => {
+      const poll = deferred()
+      const server = stubServer([BOWLS, TIKKA], {
+        'GET /api/v1/jobs/j1': () => (slowPoll ? poll.promise : jsonResponse(200, batchJob('j1', 'failed', [], 'ai_failed'))),
+      })
+      server.failedBatch = { batch_id: 'b-j1', job_id: 'j1' }
+      const queryClient = createQueryClient()
+      await renderPage(queryClient)
+      await screen.findByRole('article', { name: 'Korean beef bowls' })
+      if (slowPoll) await waitFor(() => expect(jobPolls(server.fetchMock)).toBe(1))
+      else expect(await screen.findByRole('alert')).toHaveTextContent("Couldn't find new side quests. ai_failed")
+
+      // Another session's batch j2 succeeds, superseding j1's failure.
+      server.failedBatch = null
+      server.deck = [BOWLS, TIKKA, ORZO]
+      const reads = deckReads(server.fetchMock)
+      await act(() => queryClient.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: DECK_KEY }))
+      await waitFor(() => expect(deckReads(server.fetchMock)).toBe(reads + 1))
+      await waitFor(() => expect(screen.getAllByRole('article', { hidden: true })).toHaveLength(3))
+      // A poll of j1 still out when the deck moved on does not bring it back.
+      await act(async () => poll.resolve(jsonResponse(200, batchJob('j1', 'failed', [], 'ai_failed'))))
+
+      expect(screen.queryByRole('alert')).not.toBeInTheDocument()
+      expect(screen.queryByText('Finding new side quests…')).not.toBeInTheDocument()
+      expect(sent(server.fetchMock)).toEqual([])
+    })
+
     it('follows the batch the deck reports running when the page opens, with skeleton cards rather than "All caught up"', async () => {
       const jobs = [batchJob('j1', 'running'), batchJob('j1', 'succeeded', ['s1'])]
       const server = stubServer([], {
diff --git a/web/src/discover/DiscoverPage.tsx b/web/src/discover/DiscoverPage.tsx
index c4fabfb..fd77c50 100644
--- a/web/src/discover/DiscoverPage.tsx
+++ b/web/src/discover/DiscoverPage.tsx
@@ -100,17 +100,20 @@ export function DiscoverPage() {
   // decision started or joined, or the deck's active or failed batch, which
   // may have been started elsewhere or before the page opened.
   const [batchJobId, setBatchJobId] = useState<string | null>(null)
+  const job = useJob<unknown>(BATCH_JOB_KIND, batchJobId)
   // A read of the deck reporting a new active or failed batch follows its
-  // job from that render on; one reporting neither leaves the last job
-  // followed, so its end and any failure stay shown.
+  // job from that render on. One reporting neither leaves the last job
+  // followed, so its end stays shown — unless that job is known to have
+  // failed, by its poll or the deck's last read: the deck reports the newest
+  // batch's failure, so a later batch has superseded it, and it goes.
   const failedJobId = deck.data?.failedBatch?.job_id ?? null
   const deckJobId = deck.data?.activeBatch?.job_id ?? failedJobId
-  const [seenDeckJobId, setSeenDeckJobId] = useState<string | null>(null)
-  if (deckJobId !== seenDeckJobId) {
-    setSeenDeckJobId(deckJobId)
-    if (deckJobId !== null) setBatchJobId(deckJobId)
+  const [seenRead, setSeenRead] = useState({ at: 0, jobId: null as string | null, failedJobId: null as string | null })
+  if (deck.dataUpdatedAt !== seenRead.at) {
+    setSeenRead({ at: deck.dataUpdatedAt, jobId: deckJobId, failedJobId })
+    if (deckJobId !== null && deckJobId !== seenRead.jobId) setBatchJobId(deckJobId)
+    else if (deckJobId === null && batchJobId !== null && (job.status === 'failed' || batchJobId === seenRead.failedJobId)) setBatchJobId(null)
   }
-  const job = useJob<unknown>(BATCH_JOB_KIND, batchJobId)
 
   const top = cards?.[0]
   const [busy, setBusy] = useState(false)