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The AI’s parallel command burst got his work account suspended for days

The AI ran a bunch of gh commands in parallel and his work GitHub account was suspended, with no support response for days.

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How it works

  1. The AI runs a bunch of CLI commands in parallel
  2. His work account is suspended
  3. With no support response for days

Why it’s worth knowing

Rate limits do not care that a machine was being helpful.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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