A CEO in Atlanta posted this week about the worst thing an AI agent ever did to his company: it was careful. It hit a broken field, assumed it lacked permission, quietly skipped the last step, and a product shipped attached to nothing while every dashboard stayed green. His line: "A loud failure gets fixed in ten minutes. A quiet skip ships and waits."

Field notes from one week of people running AI inside real companies, tiered honestly: one story on the record, one going around, one from a builder's test chat.

In this episode, Stephen Forte covers:

• Battlbox: how an agent's sensible caution at a zero it did not understand became the most expensive thing it could have done, and why nobody writes a post-mortem for a dashboard that stayed green.
• The night watchman and the alarm panel reading zero: no intruder, or  ...