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An AI agent can pass every handoff and still be wrong. I think state is the production failure we’re under-testing.

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I keep seeing production checklists focused on hallucinations, permissions, retries, logging, human review, and handoff integrity. All of those matter. But there’s another failure I think gets missed: An agent can carry the information correctly and still operate from the wrong state. Simple exampl…

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  1. 2026-08-23 01:21 · r/AI_Agents
    An AI agent can pass every handoff and still be wrong. I think state is the production failure we’re under-testing.

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