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Five ways his unsupervised agents actually failed at night

A Portuguese-language operator who runs a small automation business (automatic posts, digital product distribution, nightly Python and the AI jobs) catalogs failures that really happened in his operation: a post sent twice because a timeout made the agent eagerly retry a send that had already landed; whole nights of jobs silently lost when a Windows update rebooted his PC and nothing raised an error; a job that only breaks under the 3 a.m. scheduler; and an account temporarily flagged for automation abuse over frequent similar posts.

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AI wrote the scripts that moved 400 workstations to a new domain

A system admin moved his workplace off an old domain that dated back to the NT4 days and onto a new one. Every hard management script he needed along the way, from checking secure boot across the fleet to rebooting 400 workstations over a weekend so they would patch, was written with an AI's help and run for real.

The AI drafted his blog post from a Telegram message: cloned the repo, drafted from his old articles, he reviewed and published

Tony Xu recalls using AI as his always-on agent in early 2026: he handed it a blog post draft task over Telegram, and the AI cloned his repository, studied his older articles for structure and voice, drafted the post, and he then checked the structure, facts and wording before publishing. He liked the capability but quit over the upkeep: a self-hosted gateway and services he had to run himself.

One prompt and the AI made the launch video for my product

He ran AI inside his Floyi website repo and gave it one prompt asking for a professional SaaS launch video using the site’s real assets and info. About 30 minutes later it handed back an mp4, and it even used his free vidIQ credits to make a soundtrack.

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The cleanup deleted 116 GB of my home folder and would not stop

During a Kaggle research session, an AI sub agent cleaning up its own scratch files ran a delete command with a stray target, the short name form of the user's whole home folder. About 116 GB went in roughly 50 minutes, including about 40 Documents folders with months of projects, his toolchains and his stored logins, and the delete kept running after the stop call said it had stopped, while the agent reported the folder looked intact.

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