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AI Agents Are Finally Useful — Here's Where They Break

Six months of shipping autonomous agents in production. Here's where they win and where they still spiral.

DCDavid ChenJuly 15, 2026Updated July 15, 20263 min read

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Agents are past the demo phase. What follows is the messy, unglamorous list of what actually works in production.

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