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2026-03-24 21:05
Most AI agent systems fail within 48 hours of going live
Most AI agent systems fail within 48 hours of going live.
Not because the code is bad. Because nobody thought about what happens when an agent times out at 2am, takes a wrong turn, and cascades into 6 other agents doing the wrong thing.
We learned this the hard way.
Over the past 12 months we've run 14 AI agents in production — handling emails, legal analysis, financial reporting, field operati...