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"Running LLM automation unattended for months: what actually breaks"
An LLM automation that works in week one will find new ways to fail by month three. Here is what actually broke when I ran one unattended for months — from provider outages that arrive in bursts to a model that changed personality underneath me — and the small set of guards that earned their keep.
Category:
AI engineering
Posted by:
Ahmed
Tags:
- #AIengineering
- #Reliability
- #Automation
- #Production
Posted on:
8 July 2026
If you have an LLM feature in production, you have probably lived through the week where it quietly degraded and nobody noticed until a customer did. The demo was fine. The first month was fine. Then something shifted — the provider, the model, the inputs — and the thing that "just worked" started producing garbage with complete confidence. This post is a field report from the other side of that week.