AI agents failed against a live business, and how each was caught
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- Field notes, May–October 2026.
- One events business: a live Meta ad account, Stripe checkout, a Firestore back end, and a nightly analytics agent that writes reports and opens pull requests unattended.
- Forty-two of the first forty-eight reported success.
- The interesting question turned out not to be how they failed, but how anyone ever found out — and, five months in, whether that's getting any easier.
- Start here → Nine of Seventy-Four — the argument in one essay.