Autonomous AI Agents Look Great in Demos. Here's What They Cost in Production.

You've seen the s. An AI agent opens a browser. Navigates a website. Fills out forms. Makes decisions. Ships code. All by itself. Looks like magic. Then you deploy it. It runs 24/7. Nobody's watching. The invoice arrives. The Is Not the Product I build agent systems. I'm not anti-agent - I'm anti-fantasy. The fully autonomous pitch sounds like: "Just let the AI handle it. It'll figure it out." In a with curated inputs? Sure. In production where data is messy and one wrong decision costs real money? Different story entirely.