What breaks first when your AI agent runs unattended? Not the model
RehanShakir · reddit · 2026-10-12
A practitioner's breakdown of why AI agents fall apart once left running on schedules or in production: first to break is never the model but unwritten assumptions (input sizes, API fields) handled silently wrong; second is state — long-running or scheduled agents decide from half-remembered context, causing duplicate emails and orders. The author invites others' war stories and fixes that stuck.
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