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Madhvesh Kumar is a principal engineer working on production AI systems at a large enterprise. Views expressed are based on hands-on experience building and deploying autonomous agents, along with the occasional 3 AM incident response that makes you question your career choices.
Look, we've spent the last 18 months building production AI systems, and we'll tell you what keeps us up at night — and it's not whether the model can answer questions. That's table stakes now. What haunts us is the mental image of an agent autonomously approving a six-figure vendor contract at 2 a.m. because someone typo'd a config file.