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# Scaling AI agents seems much harder than building the first agent

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**Published:** July 7, 2026  
**Original:** https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1uq0r38/scaling_ai_agents_seems_much_harder_than_building/  

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- [Overview](#overview)

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## Overview

Building an agent has become much easier now. Half the frameworks out there get you a demo in a day, sometimes less. The hard part is everything that comes after. Versioning, deployment, environment management, monitoring, rollbacks, access control, all of it. We learned this the hard way after our first pilot actually worked and we had no plan for what came next. Anyone here actually made it past the pilot stage? What broke first for you and what do you wish you'd set up earlier instead of 

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