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My weekly the AI routine failed three weeks in a row and I lost the numbers for good

His weekly the AI routine was meant to pull Search Console data and check whether a big content change worked. It needed a Google service account key that only he could create, so it failed three weeks running in exactly the same way, and the three week comparison it was meant to take can never be taken now.

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How it works

  1. The routine is scheduled in the cloud to pull Search Console data and compare before and after windows
  2. It cannot get the service account key, which needs a human with two factor sign in
  3. It fails three weeks in a row and only reports the failure
  4. He moves it to a local task on his Mac and gives it an abort rule that files a Todoist task after two blocked runs

Why it’s worth knowing

The routine did exactly what it was told every Friday. It reported its own failure politely, and the measurement it existed to take is gone for good.

Where it’s from

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

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