The date format that broke my production AI agent (and the boring fix)
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The demo was clean. Forty-three test cases, all passing. The agent took a structured input, processed it, wrote the result downstream. I watched it run a dozen times in staging, everything right. I put it live. Three days later, I found records in the database with dates in 1970. What the demo hid The test inputs had date fields formatted consistently. ISO 8601, clean strings, nothing unusual. In production, one upstream system sent dates in a different format. The agent read the field, made a…
1Key Takeaways
- Forty-three test cases, all passing.
- The agent took a structured input, processed it, wrote the result downstream.
- I watched it run a dozen times in staging, everything right.
- Three days later, I found records in the database with dates in 1970.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that forty-three test cases, all passing.
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