by: adriand

Is anyone enjoying the process of deploying agentic AI for clients&#x2F;employers? I have been working on stuff in the space ever since a senior exec at a client became enamoured with OpenClaw and I had the choice of either letting her go full foot-gun or enabling her to do what she wanted with agentic AI. I built a fair bit of stuff that sounds like this project to try and put some guardrails, observability, security, etc., around OpenClaw, but I have to say that the flakiness of the overall system is a huge turnoff for me.<p>The lack of predictable output&#x2F;outcomes, the number of things that can go wrong (rate limits, this or that service stopping, a &quot;cron&quot; job seemingly disabling itself, permissions that don&#x27;t stick, on and on it goes), does not make for an enjoyable development experience. People are getting value from it and on some level it&#x27;s quite remarkable what can be done, but never in my life have users of my software had such little faith that what worked properly yesterday will work properly today. I have had far better results using LLM APIs.

4/14/2026, 8:35:11 PM