The Documentation Crisis Nobody Sees: Why AI Agents Are Breaking Faster Than Humans Can Document Them (opens in new tab)

At 3:07 AM on a Thursday in November 2024, an expense management agent completed its nightly batch run and marked the job successful. It had processed 214 expense entries across a 77-minute window. Every API call returned a 200. Every authorization token was correctly scoped. The workflow orchestrator logged nominal completion. The audit trail was clean, timestamped, and signed.