AI assistants fake autonomy with cron jobs: Grok, Muse, Dot all run scheduled data pulls
tekbog · x · 2026-10-08
After users connected Grok to their personal finances and saw it act on its own, developer tekbog explained that AI assistants like Grok, Muse and Dot all use automatic cron jobs to pull data and "make something happen," creating the illusion the product is working autonomously rather than acting on real-time model judgment.
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