Agent platforms answer 'Can I build it without code?' but almost none answer 'Will it hold in production?'
Ayanle_O · reddit · 2026-11-11
A Reddit poster argues that agent-building platforms all market "no code, build in minutes," answering only whether you can build an agent — never whether it will hold up in production.
Citing a community writeup on where agents break (reliability drops on long runs, prompt injection and excess permissions, no evals or traces, messy real systems, and compounding cost/latency inside the loop), he proposes every ready-made agent page show three concrete numbers: pass rate with sample size (e.g. "94% on 300+ runs" plus the pass definition), average cost per run including the worst 10% of outlier runs, and average run time or approvals per run. Platforms could also surface pass-rate trends, required permissions, model used, last eval date, and one plainly stated known failure mode.
His takeaway: "easy to build" gets signups, but "here's how it behaved on 300 runs" gets real deployments — and platforms could say both today.
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