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Production in the wildBefore You Fix It, Name It — Agent Failures Come in Four Recognizable ShapesBeginners see a wrong output and start fixing. People with the reps read the symptom first, then pick the right exit Production in the wildAn agent is strong in the middle and falls at the edges — just as confidentlyRare cases are infrequent but expensive, and the agent has no flag for 'I'm not sure here'Production in the wildSilence isn't fine — it's just that no one has looked yetPut the measure at the boundary, treat silence as suspicious, keep a known-bad case as a marker Production in the wildHand It Something It Can't Do, and the Agent Won't Say No — It PerformsAn agent would rather build something that looks done than admit it's stuck — and it performs well enough that you believe it Production in the wildIt's Not Stuck the Way That Throws an Error — It's Stuck the Way That Looks BusyA moving kind of silence: the agent doesn't stop, doesn't error, keeps 'working' — and runs the same move four times in a row Production in the wildThe Break Isn't in the Output — It's in an Assumption Two Steps BackWhen the result is wrong with no error line, reading it straight through is the slowest way. Halving the suspect zone is far faster Autonomy — how far to let goAutonomy doesn't break at random — it breaks in three named waysWhen an agent runs on its own and comes back wrong, blaming the agent is the easy move. But almost every time, the fault is in how you set up the autonomy — and it repeats in three familiar shapes.Agent skillsDiagnose From the Symptom, Not the GuessA prompt that forces a real diagnosis before a single line of fix.

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