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Before You Buy an AI Agent: A Checklist to Separate a Working Agent from a Demo

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AI agents are easy to demo and hard to run. A two-minute video can make almost anything look autonomous: the agent reads an email, searches the web, writes a reply, and updates a spreadsheet. What the video doesn't show is what happens on the fortieth run, when the input is messy, the API times out…

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  1. 2026-10-30 21:30 · DEV Community — AI
    Before You Buy an AI Agent: A Checklist to Separate a Working Agent from a Demo

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