From Prompt to Production: What Nobody Tells You About Building Real AI Agents

I wrote recently about how working at a five-person startup taught me to think before touching a keyboard. Building an AI agent for our internal ops platform taught me the same lesson but faster, and at a much higher cost per mistake. AI bot image Most people’s first experience with AI agents follows the same arc. You write a prompt, get a surprisingly coherent answer, and think this could run itself.