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Ask HN: What are your worst war stories bringing agentic applications into prod
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#13sounds like busy work you give to someone you dont expect to be here in 6 months.
lol I was hired to build agents. It's all some companies can think and/or dream about doing right now. This is a F100 company too. The feeling is "how can we turn everything into some sort of AI tool, but hey lets also change the scope constantly and use this week's #latest technology to do so".
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#15It wasn't a crash that cost us the most time; it was a stale read. Two agents shared a plan file. One updated the file during the run and the other continued to work off the version that had been loaded at the start. Both produced plausible output. Nothing errored. We only discovered this issue during the review process, after wasting hours of generation time. I now treat any artefact that two agents can both access as a coordination problem, not a storage one. The cheapest and most effective solution was to stamp a version on the artefact and re-check it before acting, instead of trusting the copy read at the start of the run.
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