What Salesforce's 20,000 AI Agent Deployments Teach a Solo Builder

Salesforce has shipped around 20,000 Agentforce deployments. ByteByteGo published a writeup of what they learned, sourced to John Kucera, the CPO of Agentforce. I run a one-person agent fleet, which is about as far from Salesforce scale as you can get. The lessons still translate. Better than I expected, actually. Short version: 90% of agent work happens after launch, not before. The failures cluster into three patterns. Putting deterministic logic inside an LLM loop, prompting harder instead o...