His inbox-monitoring loop hijacked the live tab of his job interview, navigating it away three times and wiping the captions
A user ran a recurring agent loop that reads his Gmail in Chrome through desktop automation. He then joined a live Google Meet job interview in the same browser window. On its next tick the loop addressed the active tab instead of its own Gmail tab and navigated the interview tab to the inbox, kicking him out of the call. Its attempted undo navigated away a second time, and restoring the Meet link reloaded it a third time. Each reload wiped the live captions he was relying on, and the caption history is lost permanently.
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How it works
- Recurring Gmail loop runs in Chrome
- He joins a job interview call in the same window
- The loop targets the active tab, which is now the call
- Navigates it to the inbox, kicking him out
- An undo navigates away again
- Restoring the link reloads a third time
- Live captions wiped permanently
Why it’s worth knowing
The loop never checked what the tab contained. A job interview and an inbox were the same thing to it: whichever tab was active.
Where it’s from
Summarized from a public post on github.com. See the original ↗