What’s the biggest headache you’ve run into with autonomous agents so far?
Posted by AgentAiLeader@reddit | LocalLLaMA | View on Reddit | 3 comments
Hey everyone,
I’ve been tinkering with different local setups for autonomous agents lately, and I’m curious how others are experiencing it.
For me, the biggest pain point hasn’t been the model itself it’s the “agent logic” going rogue. Sometimes it over-optimizes something totally useless, sometimes it just loops forever, and sometimes it does something smart and I have no idea why it worked that time and not the last ten tries.
So I’m wondering:
What’s the biggest challenge you’ve personally run into when playing with autonomous agents locally?
Is it:
- the planning loop?
- tool usage?
- memory going wild?
- debugging the chain of thought?
- or just compute limitations?
No right or wrong answers I’m just trying to see what problems people here are actually facing so I can sanity-check whether I’m the only one fighting these weird edge cases.
Looking forward to hearing your chaos stories. 😅
blackkettle@reddit
Calling them “agents”. This naming convention is such a load of marketing bullshit and so easily confused with other meanings of this word. I absolutely despise it.
AI Agents are just glorified context wrappers for LLMs. There’s nothing special about them and this vocabulary for them is really just an abject mess.
jrherita@reddit
Can you give me an example of an autonomous agent over optimizing something? I don't have experience with managing aa's. thanks!
BeneficialLook6678@reddit
Maybe the key to AI security is not just technical safeguards. Prompt injections and exploits are scary, but human oversight and sloppy governance cause most real failures. If your organization culture does not question what the agent does at every step, perfect code does not prevent chaos.