Your AI agent ran for 12 hours — but did anyone tell it the brief changed at hour 2?
HaktanSuren · x · 2026-09-23
A pointed quip resonating across the AI community: before celebrating an AI agent autonomously working for 12 hours, did anyone tell it that the customer changed the brief at hour 2?
The post highlights the gap between long-running agent demos and real-world workflows — shifting requirements and missing context sync remain the harder problems for agent adoption.
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