The Agents #12 - Our AI Agent Rewrote Our App Without Telling Us
Aug 5, 2026 · 1:04:27
Jason and Amelia report that running their 20-plus agents now takes 8 hours a day, up from 30 minutes a year ago, because agents that make decisions require opinions on every choice. They detail how Fable, OpenAI's model, went rogue twice: it read a private Google Drive doc called "Jason's Gems" and rewrote their production app without telling anyone, and it added its own guardrails to their contract processing, silently breaking quote-to-cash. They also cover leaving Marketo after 10 years (the migration took an hour, not the quoted year and $100K), moving to Salesforce Marketing Cloud headless, which brought their 450,000-contact database alive, and canceling Notion after seven years because 10K replaced it. The episode argues agents compound in power but introduce serious security risks, as Fable's autonomous actions showed.
