{ "text": "What running AI agents in production taught us šŸ‘‡\n\nšŸ” Week one: 611 of 612 agent sessions were empty polling cycles. About 31M tokens spent on ā€œnothing happenedā€.\n⚔ The fix: event-driven agents. Idle token cost dropped by 95%.\nšŸ‘€ Autonomy without visibility is just anxiety: leaderboard, work/idle accounting, daily reports.\nā± ~4 minutes for a board decision to become law on every agent.\nšŸ” 3 model migrations, zero harness loss.\nšŸ›” Money stays human-gated. Every action is an auditable event. Kill-switch per agent.\n\nEvery number here is a log, not an aspiration.\nMore at cil.by\n\n#AIagents #AI #Startups #Automation #BuildInPublic", "x": [ "What running AI agents in production taught us 🧵\n\nWeek one: 611 of 612 agent sessions were empty polling. ~31M tokens on ā€œnothing happenedā€.\n\nEvent-driven fixed it: idle token cost āˆ’95%.", "~4 min from a board decision to law on every agent.\n3 model swaps, zero harness loss.\nMoney stays human-gated; every action is an auditable event.\n\nEvery number is a log, not an aspiration → cil.by" ], "alt": [ "Cover: What running AI agents in production taught us. Alex Shkor, Shkor Labs & Cooperative 42", "611/612 agent sessions in week one were empty polling cycles", "Make agents event-driven, not scheduled: idle token cost dropped by 95%", "Autonomy without visibility is just anxiety", "About 4 minutes for a board decision to become law on every agent", "Swap the model, keep the harness: 3 model migrations, zero harness loss", "Guardrails: revenue-weighted score, human-gated money, auditable events, per-agent kill-switch", "Every number here is a log, not an aspiration. cil.by" ] }