The gap between agent demos and agent products

Every impressive agent skips the same three things: Auth. The target is open. The real one has a login and a 2FA prompt. Identity. The agent acts as the developer. The real one needs its own email, accounts, and a place to keep secrets. State. The is one clean run. The real one has to remember what it did last time and resume. These are not AI problems, which is exactly why they get skipped in AI s. But they are most of the work to go from "cool clip" to "thing that runs unattended." The model is increasingly the easy part.