Why ‘Move Fast, Break Things’ Is Killing Your Custom AI Agent Development Before Year 2?
The “move fast and break things” attitude is actively hurting custom AI agent development by prioritising speed over structural soundness. Speedy AI deployments create huge technical debt, e.g., in architecture, code quality, testing, and documentation, that silently accrues in the background. This is the feeling of rapid progress in Year 1 that inevitably leads to the "Year 2 death spiral". During this phase, costs for maintenance quickly outpace budgets for innovation, development stalls, and companies bleed millions in wasted resources. For building sustainable AI tools, development teams should focus on well-architected foundations, not messy, fast sprints. Read more: https://inument.com/blog/why-move-fast-break-things-is-killing-your-custom-ai-agent-development-before-year-2/