Is This You?

Your AI Agents Are Broken.
You Just Don't Know It Yet.

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Burned $47 in 14 Minutes on a Reasoning Loop

Agent looked busy. Was going nowhere. No alerts fired.

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Published a Summary of a CAPTCHA Page

Scraper hit rate limit. Agent treated Cloudflare HTML as article content.

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Agent Forgot Its Own Requirements

300 lines of solid code in hour one. Rewrote it into broken code by hour three.

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5-Agent Pipeline Deadlocked for 6 Hours

Circular waits. No timeouts. No fallbacks. Just silence.

"I run 20 agents daily. Not as a demo. For actual work. And they break in ways I never anticipated." — Vinny Barreca, Author
🚨 Agent Behaving Strangely
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Check symptoms
Reasoning Loop?
↓ Yes
Sig #1: Loop Paralysis
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Context Drift?
↓ Yes
Sig #2: Window Degradation
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