Auto-brightness stops working after waking from sleep

The auto-brightness feature on my MacBook Air m1 works as intended on normal usage but when I leave it overnight and open it up the next morning, the screen brightness doesn't adjust to the ambient light and stays where it was the other night. The only solution I found is to reboot the system completely. This is not something new that I noticed, it's been like this since I bought it 3 months ago. Sometimes the screen is so dim that I can't see anything on the screen, especially when I'm outdoors. Is there a way to fix this without me having to reboot everytime I woke it from sleep?