diff --git a/infrastructure/corpus-scheduler-lambda/src/corpusSchedulerLambda.ts b/infrastructure/corpus-scheduler-lambda/src/corpusSchedulerLambda.ts
index a22ac26f..6af76069 100644
--- a/infrastructure/corpus-scheduler-lambda/src/corpusSchedulerLambda.ts
+++ b/infrastructure/corpus-scheduler-lambda/src/corpusSchedulerLambda.ts
@@ -24,8 +24,9 @@ export class CorpusSchedulerSQSLambda extends Construct {
       'corpus-scheduler-sqs-lambda',
       {
         name: `${config.prefix}-SQS`,
-        // set batchSize to something reasonable
-        batchSize: 20,
+        // batch size is 1 so SQS doesn't get smart and try to combine them
+        // (a combined message will mean a skipped candidate set from ML)
+        batchSize: 1,
         batchWindow: 60,
         sqsQueue: {
           visibilityTimeoutSeconds: 150,
diff --git a/lambdas/corpus-scheduler-lambda/src/config.ts b/lambdas/corpus-scheduler-lambda/src/config.ts
index 83a0595d..8cc960cc 100644
--- a/lambdas/corpus-scheduler-lambda/src/config.ts
+++ b/lambdas/corpus-scheduler-lambda/src/config.ts
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ const config = {
         region: process.env.REGION || 'us-east-1',
     },
     AdminApi: isDev
-        ? process.env.ADMIN_API_URI || 'http://localhost:4027'
+        ? process.env.ADMIN_API_URI || 'https://admin-api.getpocket.dev'
         : process.env.ADMIN_API_URI || 'https://admin-api.getpocket.com',
     jwt: {
         key: process.env.JWT_KEY || 'CorpusSchedulerLambda/Dev/JWT_KEY',