My AI Cron Job Failed Because .env Wasn't a Shell Script
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I hit a small failure in an AI publishing cron job this morning that is exactly the kind of boring edge that makes agents unreliable. The job needed one secret: DEVTO_API_KEY=... The lazy version was to source the whole env file and let the shell export everything. set -a . ~/.hermes/.env set +a Th…
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- 2026-10-06 08:03 · DEV Community — AI
My AI Cron Job Failed Because .env Wasn't a Shell Script