Your agent isn't failing because of the model, it's failing because nobody built a stop button

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Summary

The article argues that the primary failure point for AI agents in production is not the model itself, but the lack of infrastructure such as stop buttons, billing oversight, and traceability for tool calls.

Been deep in this for a while and i'm increasingly convinced the model is almost never the problem in prod. it's the boring stuff like the agent loops and nobody's watching the bill, it does something dumb and there's no record of why, a tool call goes sideways and you can't trace it. everyone's still obsessing over which model and better prompts. meanwhile the thing that actually bites is infra nobody built. For people running this in prod - was your worst incident a model problem, or an everything-around-the-model problem?
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