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From AI demos to production systems: what breaks when agents become autonomous?
A recurring lesson from production AI deployments is that most failures are system failures, not model failures.
As organizations move beyond pilots, challenges increasingly shift toward:
• Agent identity and permissioning
• Trust boundaries between agents and human operators
• Governance and auditability for autonomous actions
• Security treated as a first-class architectural constraint
This recent Fortune article highlights how enterprises are navigating that transition, including work with AWS’s AI Innovation Lab.
Open question for the community:
What architectural patterns or tooling are proving effective for managing identity, permissions, and safety in autonomous or semi-autonomous agent systems in production?
Context: https://fortune.com/2025/12/19/amazon-aws-innovation-lab-aiq/
A recurring lesson from production AI deployments is that most failures are system failures, not model failures.
As organizations move beyond pilots, challenges increasingly shift toward:
• Agent identity and permissioning
• Trust boundaries between agents and human operators
• Governance and auditability for autonomous actions
• Security treated as a first-class architectural constraint
This recent Fortune article highlights how enterprises are navigating that transition, including work with AWS’s AI Innovation Lab.
Open question for the community:
What architectural patterns or tooling are proving effective for managing identity, permissions, and safety in autonomous or semi-autonomous agent systems in production?
Context: https://fortune.com/2025/12/19/amazon-aws-innovation-lab-aiq/