From Hype to Hard Reality: What We're Learning About Shipping AI Agents in Production

Originally published on tamiz.pro . For the better part of two years, the narrative has been seductive: build a few function calls around a reasoning model, add a tool-use loop, and you have an autonomous agent that solves hard problems. The demos are real. The benchmarks are impressive. And then you try to ship one to production — and the floor opens up beneath you. I've spent the last eighteen…