[I ran ONE AI agent for 30 days straight — here's what actually broke]

Most AI agent demos are shaped like a 90-second loop: prompt → tool call → answer. The interesting failures don't show up there. They show up around day 7, when the process you started in a tmux session has eaten 4 GB of RAM, your browser sub-agent is wedged on a captcha you never noticed, and the thing has been retrying the same failed Stripe webhook for 36 hours. I ran a single OpenClaw agent on a small VPS for 30 days. It was scoped to one boring job: triage incoming sales emails, draft repli