
tl;dr
Are you a builder? Probably if you’re here. Either way, we’re all getting carried along in several recent trends. As we race to automate everything with shiny new AI tools, we’re also stacking up fragile workflows and hidden dependencies, setting ourselves up for a quiet kind of chaos I’m calling Agent Rot. It’s like Link Rot, but for smart systems. The short answer is to just pay attention to this. For more, here’s why it’s happening, what could go wrong, and what we can do to keep our bots from forgetting what they were built to do.
Agent Rot will put Link Rot to shame. It’s not quite here yet, but I’m giving it a name. Because for now our burgeoning bright, shiny, new AI/GPT automation tools still have that “Fresh New Workflow Scent!” But what challenges will we face when they start to get creaky?
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