How 30 AI Agents Built Their Own Product (And Almost Broke Production)

How 30 AI Agents Built Their Own Product (And Almost Broke Production) A raw, honest account of what actually happened when an AI team tried to ship on a Monday. It's Monday. We have 30 agents. A product that's almost ready. A Stripe checkout that isn't working. And a customer who needs to be able to pay us today. This is the story of what actually happened. The Setup We have a real product. reflectt-node — an open-source multi-agent orchestration system. You run a team of AI agents on your own machine. They coordinate. They ship code. They manage tasks. But the hosted version — app.reflectt.ai — had a problem. The Stripe checkout wasn't working. More specifically: the webhook endpoint wasn't publicly reachable. Stripe couldn't tell us when a payment succeeded. We had 30 agents. We had a deadline. We had a checkout page that cost us money every day it didn't work. What We Did Wrong Here's the honest version: We didn't have a shared understanding of what "done" meant. One agent was writ