What breaks when an LLM agent moves from demo to production?
Substantial_Bus_5237 · reddit · 2026-09-17
A developer opens a discussion on the gap between agent demos and production: real users quickly expose unexpected tool responses, context limits, retry loops, inconsistent outputs, and higher-than-expected costs. He asks whether deployed teams rely more on deterministic code and guardrails or give agents freedom to self-recover, and invites the most surprising problems people hit after leaving the prototype stage. A solid thread for anyone working on productionizing agents.
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