Ran a diagnostics script at the wrong time and cost myself 4 hours Monday

I was at my shop in San Antonio last week, trying to test a new AI diagnostic tool I'd been messing with. I set it to run overnight on our network of customer vehicles, thinking it would check for error codes quietly. Came in Tuesday morning to find it had flagged 12 cars with false positives because the script was scanning during a system update. That wasted my whole afternoon re-running manual checks on all of them. Has anyone else had an AI tool screw up a routine because you didn't think about timing?

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patricia_wells18d ago

Oh no, that sounds like a total nightmare lol. Timing really is everything with these tools, sorry you had to deal with that mess.

christopher_flores4618d ago

actually timing worked out fine for me... my issue is more with how people expect these tools to be perfect right out of the box. you said "timing really is everything" but honestly i think it's more about managing your own expectations. like when i use a writing tool and it messes up, that's on me for not proofreading or giving it better prompts. the tech is what it is, you know? people blame the tool way too fast instead of looking at how they're using it.