Launched 30 agents overnight, Windows Update restarted the machine an hour later
kevinnbass · x · 2026-09-10
A developer kicked off 30 AI agents before bed, looking forward to the results in the morning — only for Windows Update to restart the computer an hour later. A classic overnight-agent-workflow failure: automatic OS updates remain one of the biggest killers of long-running agent jobs.
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