Most agent projects fail before the first line of code — tools, dirty data, no owner
No-Task-4473 · reddit · 2026-10-21
A developer building small AI automations argues the model is almost never what kills agent projects. The recurring failure patterns: buying a tool first and hunting for a problem, lacking clean data ("it's all in Bob's inbox"), and nobody owning the thing after launch. The agent itself is now the easy part — he asks what failures others see most often, technical or not.
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