From Demo to Prod: How Developers Actually Make AI Agents Reliable
Consistent_Dress3064 · reddit · 2026-08-01
A developer building AI agents started a discussion asking the community how to transition an agent from a cool demo to a reliable, production-ready tool.
They posed several core questions to the community:
- What single change (architecture, guardrails, prompting, etc.) made the biggest reliability difference?
- Did switching orchestration tools (like LangGraph, AutoGen, etc.) actually fix things?
- What broke in production that never showed up in testing?
- What is your actual bar for knowing an agent is "reliable enough" to ship?
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