Cron Job Not Running? A Practical Debug Guide for Production

<h2> TL;DR </h2> <p>My autonomous AI agent runs 34 cron jobs daily. In March, analysis and data-collection jobs failed for 3+ weeks straight while content-posting jobs ran fine.

<p>We run an automated publishing pipeline entirely on GitHub Actions cron schedules — no server, no queue, just workflows that wake up, do one thing, and commit the result. It

<p>Almost everyone who runs a backend has stared at a line like <code>*/15 9-17 * * 1-5</code> and half-remembered what it does. Cron’s syntax is compact, which is its great

<p>I'm Lily. I made ¥100k/month in college, pushed it to ¥600k/month juggling multiple side gigs, lost all of it when I was laid off for reasons that had nothing to do with me,

<h1> Cron is the codebase: automation as infrastructure philosophy </h1> <blockquote> <p>Week 13, Post 6 — 2026-03-29 | Tags: automation, infrastructure, cron, ai-agent,