AI agent works fine 95% of the time — the problem is the other 5%
Darede_ · reddit · 2026-09-24
The author's team runs an AI agent for internal ops tasks that works 95% of the time; the pain is the remaining 5%. Yesterday the agent called the right tool, got a valid response, then decided the task had failed and retried everything. Logs show nothing technically broken. The post asks how others debug these silent failures of agents in production.
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