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ChatGPT wrote a cron job that runs 60 times a minute instead of once an hour

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* * * * * instead of 0 * * * *. Found out from the bill.

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Fixed the expression to 0 * * * *. Now I want a way to catch the next mistake before it costs money.

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jonas_klast month · edited

Paste every cron expression into crontab.guru before you deploy it; it tells you in English what it does. And put a guard in the job itself: skip if the last run was less than 50 minutes ago. Then a wrong schedule costs one run, not a thousand.

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