Princeton researchers reveal that AI agent reliability improves at half the rate of accuracy. A 10-step agent workflow at 90% per-step reliability will fail over 6 times daily — and the industry has no good fix yet.
A series of outages hit Amazon's e-commerce platform in early March, including one directly tied to its AI coding assistant Q. The company is now enforcing a 90-day safety reset with mandatory approval gates for 335 critical systems.
If you can't see what your agents are doing, you can't trust them. Here's a practical mission control setup: runs, logs, failures, and artifact tracking.