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The 3 AM Reality Check: When your autonomous AI agent stalls, who fixes it? A candid look at the risks and rewards of deploying Agentic AI.
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Opens with a 3 AM failure in a “fully autonomous” deployment to show why agentic AI is hard in practice Clarifies the difference between reactive generative AI and goal-driven agentic AI using the Plan - Act - Observe - Reflect loop Sets expectations for enterprises: autonomy is powerful but only works with clear goals, guardrails and realistic scope