6 Failure Modes to Instrument Before You Ship an AI Agent
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Before you ship an AI agent to production, you need to know what happens when it breaks silently, and most teams don't find out until a customer complains. The reason is structural: your agent can return HTTP 200, your logs can show success, your tests can pass, and the agent still did nothing. No tokens consumed, no output, no action taken. You asked it for a summary and it gave you an empty string. You asked it to classify an email and it returned null. The call succeeded. The agent failed.…
1Key Takeaways
- Before you ship an AI agent to production, you need to know what happens when it breaks silently, and most teams don't find out until a customer complains.
- The reason is structural: your agent can return HTTP 200, your logs can show success, your tests can pass, and the agent still did nothing.
- No tokens consumed, no output, no action taken.
- You asked it for a summary and it gave you an empty string.
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3Why it matters
Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — AI reports that before you ship an AI agent to production, you need to know what happens when it breaks silently, and most teams don't find out until a customer complains.
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