
Your AI Agent Fails Boringly, and That's Good News
The agent reported success. The job “completed.” Then the next step in your pipeline received nothing, and you spent an evening chasing the mystery. Here’s the liberating truth most solo builders don’t reach until it costs them: your agent’s failures are almost never dramatic. They’re mechanical, and mechanical means diagnosable. The bug was one missing closing bracket. The fix was reading one number in a log file. There is no genius in it — and that’s exactly the good news. ...