Hey everyone, it's your friendly neighborhood old man developer here. I'm 38, dabbling in AI agents and automated trading bots on the side, in between my day job.
Today, I want to share a story about one of my self-made bots that's been quietly dead for the past two months. It wasn't a dramatic crash or a visible error; it was far more insidious: it was running "normally" while being completely useless. The cause? An embarrassingly simple mistake.
Weekly Reports of '0 Followers'
I built a simple analytics bot to keep an eye on the KPIs for my X account (@oji_ai_dev). Every Monday morning, it fetches my follower count, tweet count, impressions, and so on, then sends a Slack notification.
At some point, it started spitting out reports like this, week after week:
