Why AI Agents Fail in Production: Lessons from Shipping 7 Agents Across Healthcare, Logistics, and…
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Why AI Agents Fail in Production: Lessons from Shipping 7 Agents Across Healthcare, Logistics, and Fintech The gap between “it works in the ” and “it works in production” is where most AI agent projects go to die. This article covers the five failure patterns that live in that gap. The 5 architecture failure patterns we encountered across 7 enterprise deployments - and the production code that fixed each one. In February 2025, we deployed an AI agent for a logistics company to replace a three-person dispatch coordination team.