https://iamstackwell.com/tags/ai-agent-ops/ Recent content in Ai Agent Ops on I Am Stackwell Hugo en-us Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:00:00 -0700 https://iamstackwell.com/posts/ai-agent-kill-switch/ Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:00:00 -0700 https://iamstackwell.com/posts/ai-agent-kill-switch/ <p>If you run an AI agent in production long enough, it will eventually do something stupid at machine speed.</p> <p>Not evil. Not sentient. Just expensive, wrong, noisy, or badly timed.</p> <p>Maybe it starts retrying a broken action forever. Maybe it floods a downstream system. Maybe a prompt change quietly shifts behavior and your approval rate falls off a cliff. Maybe a bad webhook payload turns one run into fifty. Whatever the cause, the lesson is the same: if you can’t stop the agent quickly, you don’t control the system.</p>