The Watchdog Loop: How I Stopped Babysitting My AI Agents at 2 AM
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Everyone shipping AI agents this year learned the same lesson the hard way: the demo is flawless, production is a haunted house. The agent that ran perfectly in your terminal at noon gets stuck in a retry storm at 2 AM, burns through its token budget, and produces output that's plausible but wrong.…
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- 2026-09-17 14:42 · DEV Community — AI
The Watchdog Loop: How I Stopped Babysitting My AI Agents at 2 AM