The original title is "Is Your AI Agent Production-Ready? Define the Bar First"

Short summary

AI agents need a production-readiness bar defined before building, not after. The bar covers four dimensions: task success rate on real tasks, failure acceptability (graceful vs dangerous), cost/latency ceilings, and containment (blast radius when wrong). Setting thresholds afterward leads to rationalizing whatever the agent already does.

• •Agents need a written readiness bar covering task success, failure acceptability, cost/latency, and containment
• •A demo is a single anecdote; the bar is a contract measured against non-hand-picked inputs
• •Set thresholds before building—afterward, people rationalize existing performance into 'good enough'

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