Why Your AI Agent Demo Falls Apart in Production

Your agent crushed it on stage. The audience clapped. The travel-planning agent nailed it - a 4-day hiking trip, budget-friendly, one fancy dinner on night three. Beautiful. Then you deployed it and… it fell apart. Not dramatically. Not all at once. It just started doing weird things. Booking a hotel in Paris, then recommending a restaurant in London. Picking a "budget" flight that cost $1,200. Suggesting a hiking trail that's been closed since 2019. Death by a thousand paper cuts. If this sounds familiar, you're not alone. It's math.