Agent seller confesses: his 'flawless' four-month automation needed twice-weekly secret patches
Cold_Mud2650 · reddit · 2026-09-21
A developer selling automation to small companies admits that a client's supplier-ordering agent, nominally running flawlessly for four months, actually gets stuck about twice a week — and he quietly fixes it before the client notices.
- "The demo version is honest, the deployed version is a person standing behind a curtain."
- He notes patching still beats the client's previous manual workflow, but the gap between "the agent handles this" and "I handle this at 11pm so it looks automated" is wider than anyone selling agents admits.
- He asks peers running agents in production how much of their uptime is the agent versus them catching failures first.
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