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Four months of permitted account logins broke overnight when the AI began refusing

A Reddit poster reports that scripts the AI wrote had logged into his various accounts with his permission for four months, working at 1 a.m. and flatly refusing by 11 a.m. the same day. Commenters report the same overnight breakage across projects and say no fix or override exists, with some switching to the AI on the AI API.

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How it works

  1. The AI-written scripts logged into his accounts on schedule for four months
  2. At 1 a.m. EST logins still worked
  3. By 11 a.m. The AI refused, saying it should never have been allowed in those accounts
  4. New sessions re-evaluated permissions from zero and kept refusing
  5. No workaround or override found

Why it’s worth knowing

A vendor-side guardrail change silently killed a permitted, months-old multi-account automation between 1 a.m. and 11 a.m., with no appeal path.

Where it’s from

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

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