Discussion: What Actually Broke When You Ran AI Agents in Production?
Diegokernel · reddit · 2026-08-12
A developer researching agent infrastructure started a Reddit thread to collect real-world failure cases of AI agents acting autonomously in production.
They are looking for specific incident details: What did the agent try to do? What actually happened? How did you notice it? Did retries or recovery make it worse? And what safeguards did you add afterward? The post drew many developers sharing their practical operational pitfalls.
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