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This is the reckoning: agents can outpace human code review, and the usual safeguards don't prevent failures at scale. The operator learned that tests break silently, monitors measure proxies instead of outcomes, and repair agents can cause cascading outages. If you're using agents on production systems, this is a hard-earned field report on where your safety net will tear.
This is the bridge between lab research and deployed agents. The signal is reproducibility: simulation-guided testing caught failures before customers saw them, which is the whole game for regulated industries. If you're building CX agents or anything customer-facing with tools, you need this pattern. Simulation is cheaper than customer trust erosion.