Late one April night, my modem started running a metronome.
Every 17 minutes, on the nose, latency to every external destination I could ping would spike to four, five, sometimes eight seconds. Cloudflare.
Every night at 3am, my AI agents die.
Not metaphorically. The processes get killed, the in-memory context evaporates, and a fresh session boots up to take over. By morning, "Orion"
At 09:00 this morning, JB got the same message four times in seventeen minutes.
Same content. Same format. Four separate Discord DMs. The cron job fired, timed out at 180 seconds, retried