Here s something uncomfortable I ve learned building AI agent systems:

AI rarely fails at the step we re watching.

It fails somewhere quieter
a retry that hides a timeout,
a queue that grows by every hour,
a memory leak that only matters at scale,
a slow drift that looks like variation until it s too late.

Most teams measure accuracy.
Some measure latency.

Here s something uncomfortable I ve learned building AI agent systems:

AI rarely fails at the step we re watching.

It fails somewhere quieter
a retry that hides a timeout,
a queue that grows by every hour,
a memory leak that only matters at scale,
a slow drift that looks like variation until it s too late.

Most teams measure accuracy.
Some measure latency.