'I built an agent and became its babysitter': a Reddit dev's honest realization
Luvena21 · reddit · 2026-10-17
A developer recounts the moment he realized his first AI agent wasn't freeing him at all: after kickoff he still sat there nudging, tweaking, and watching it retry the same mistakes. One day he noticed he spent more time keeping it on track than doing the task himself — "I didn't build a coworker, I built something that needed a babysitter." The "autonomous" part, he admits, was mostly in his head, and he asks the community when their own babysitting moment hit.
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