[I Ran 5 AI Agents Unattended for 30 Days] What Actually Broke and What Held

When I tell operators their AI assistant will "just run 24/7," that's the promise. The reality is uglier — agents crash, sessions die, context windows fill up, model providers throttle, and your "automation" becomes a 3AM page. Last month I gave myself a constraint: run 5 small agents unattended for 30 days as a solo founder. No babysitting, no manual restarts. One for inbox triage. One for monitoring a few competitor pricing pages. One for nightly browser-based status checks. One for code refac