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What broke when we pushed our agent fleet to 24/7 runs (it wasn’t prompt quality)

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Most discussions around autonomous agents focus on reasoning benchmarks or clever prompt patterns. In production, almost none of our catastrophic failures came from the LLM failing to reason. They came from harness and plumbing breakdowns. When you let agents run around the clock across parallel ta…

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  1. 2026-09-08 00:05 · r/AI_Agents
    What broke when we pushed our agent fleet to 24/7 runs (it wasn’t prompt quality)

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