Quiz: What Happens When It Breaks? 3 questions · 80% to pass 1. Why should automated jobs report successes and not just failures?Success reports make the logs look complete for auditorsA job that only speaks up on failure is indistinguishable from a job that has diedFailures are too rare to be worth reportingSuccess reports help the AI model improve over timeSilence from a failure-only reporter could mean everything is fine or nothing is running. Confirmed success is the only signal that removes the ambiguity.2. What did the weeks-long silent outage teach, according to the lesson?Automation should be avoided in small businessesThe scheduled jobs were poorly written and needed a rebuildCloud platforms are inherently more reliable than local machinesUnsupervised automation can fail invisibly for weeks, so a supervisor that verifies freshness and pages a human is a requirementOne configuration change silenced every job with no visible crash. The supervisor agent was built specifically because of that outage.3. Where does the lesson say most real-world automation breakage comes from?The AI model producing wrong answersCompetitors interfering with your systemsThe plumbing at the edges: expired credentials, changed permissions, and machines asleep at the scheduled hourEmployees turning automations off deliberatelyThe logic is usually the reliable part. Real systems break at the operational edges, which is exactly where supervision needs to be looking. Check answers Retake quiz Back to lesson Next lesson →