I Sorted 400 Agent Failures Into Five Buckets. Almost None Were the Model's Fault.
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Over a month I logged about 400 tasks run by an agent on my own machine. When a task went wrong I wrote one line about why. Then I sorted the lines. The distribution surprised me enough that I changed what I work on. The five buckets Stale state (~40%). Wrong branch, a port still held, a half-finis…
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- 2026-10-21 03:46 · DEV Community — AI
I Sorted 400 Agent Failures Into Five Buckets. Almost None Were the Model's Fault.