Everyone is shipping AI agents right now. Almost no one is testing them — and that is the whole problem.
A demo agent and a production agent are different animals. The demo works because you walked it down the happy path. Production breaks on the paths you never imagined.
Most AI automations don’t fail at the model. They fail the second time you run them.
The demo always looks great: feed it data, get a clean answer, everyone’s impressed. Then it goes live — and a webhook fires twice, a lead gets messaged twice, a row gets processed twice....
Your AI or automation passed every test. Is it ready to ship?
In October I ran 9 of my own projects live, on real data. 9 real bugs showed up after every automated test had passed. So I wrote down the 12 tests I now run before anything ships, and made them a free 3-page PDF.