Are autonomous agents really running unattended in production yet?
Substantial_Step_351 · reddit · 2026-07-23
A Reddit discussion asks whether anyone is actually running autonomous agents unattended in production, or whether humans still approve every step.
The author notes that many “autonomous agent” demos seem to have hidden human approval in the background, or are locked down so tightly that they behave like scripts with extra API calls. The thread asks what real-world unattended usage looks like and what people are running.
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