Quick disclosure: I run Server4Agent, infra for agent-built apps, so I have a stake in this question, but this isn’t a pitch, there’s nothing to click here. The capability jump this year is real. Agents can now scaffold a working app, wire up a database, and get something live in an afternoon. What hasn’t moved nearly as fast is the second half of the problem: once it’s live, how do you know it’s still doing what it’s supposed to without watching it constantly. The failure mode that keeps coming up in agent-building communities isn’t the dramatic one (agent deletes prod, agent burns your API budget overnight). It’s quieter than that: the agent reports success and it’s technically true but not actually true. A task marked done that only partially ran. A retry that silently overwrote a good deployment with a stale one. A safety check that’s real on paper but doesn’t actually confine anything once code is executing. Every one of these passes a shallow “did it work” check and fails a “did it actually do the right thing” check, and most tooling right now only asks the first question. Genuinely asking, not selling: if you’ve let an agent operate with real infra access, what’s the specific thing that would have gone wrong silently if you weren’t watching, and what actually catches that class of failure versus what just looks like it does? submitted by /u/marcin_michalak
Originally posted by u/marcin_michalak on r/ArtificialInteligence