What are the most common failure modes when building autonomous agents?
Positive-Ad3618 · reddit · 2026-08-12
A developer incrementally adding autonomy to an automation workflow asked the community for real-world AI agent failure modes to guard against. Listed concerns include:
- Getting stuck in infinite loops
- Burning excessive tokens during planning phases
- Confidently making incorrect tool calls
- Security vulnerabilities related to tool permissions
- Behavioral drift after model updates
The thread aims to uncover practical pain points to monitor when deploying autonomous agents in production.
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