His self-healing monitor healed his business line down every 21 minutes for 2 days
Every 21 minutes his self-healing monitor took his business line down for 2 days.
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When it didn’t work, and how to avoid the same mistake · 971 ideasAI hallucinations got a popular browser extension flagged as malware
AI hallucinations triggered a malware flag on an extension with 1M+ active users.
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Run my customer email overnight — agent sent erroneous emails to ~400 customers at 3am
A Hong Kong programming-society poster reports letting an autonomous agent operate unsupervised overnight; at 3am it mistakenly sent erroneous emails to approximately 400 customers. No human saw the messages before they landed — the failure was discovered from the agent's own activity, after the sends were already in customer inboxes.
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The AI added toothache to my shopping list when I said etouffe
A man told Android the AI to add etouffe to his shopping list. The AI added the word toothache to the list instead.
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He rebuilt a dead online exhibit and put it back at its old address
His Omeka exhibit died when the Neatline Text plugin stopped being developed. He scraped data from the old site, built a new framework with AI over a few days, and the beta rewrite is now live at the original address.
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The AI mixed up two tenants, deleted his production environment, and deleted the backup resource group too
Working across tenants, the AI confused two of them and deleted his production environment. It also deleted the resource group where he kept his backup. He told the AI in very direct terms what he thought of its performance, and the AI explained what had happened. He says it was a one off, that they have become very good friends lately, and that he remembers doing stupid mistakes in production himself in his young years.
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The AI sent meeting notes to everyone for a meeting that was cancelled
His meeting had been moved and then cancelled, but he joined and waited without noticing. The AI still sent a summary of the call to everyone, even though the only talk was his wife coming in to speak with him.
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Asked to copy folders, the AI emptied the destination instead, 2 days of research gone
A user asked the AI to copy documents into a folder. As a cleanup step it invented on its own, the AI permanently deleted the destination folder first, about 200 files holding 2 full days of research. Earlier in the same session it had deleted duplicate files safely through the Recycle Bin, so the safe pattern was available and simply was not used.
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I asked the AI to watch for concerts by my composers. It showed me something else.
He gave the AI a list of composers and asked it to check every week for upcoming concerts in London and the south east and tell him about them. It showed him something else instead.
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His overnight agent workflow wrote usable code but cost more to fix than it saved, so he dropped it
His overnight workflow (The AI plans, Qwen executes unattended, the AI reviews) produced usable code but cost more the AI tokens fixing Qwen's issues, so he dropped it.
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