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What actually broke when I gave my agent “full autonomy” for a week

Ran an experiment where I let an agent handle a research and summarization workflow with minimal human checkpoints. Here’s what failed in ways I didn’t expect: Tool call loops. When a tool returned ambiguous results, the agent would retry with slight variations indefinitely instead of escalating. N…

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  1. 2026-10-03 19:09 · r/AI_Agents
    What actually broke when I gave my agent “full autonomy” for a week

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