https://community.databricks.com/t5/generative-ai/does-quot-move-fast-and-break-things-quot-ruin-ai-agents/m-p/159892#M1878 <P>Is the "move fast and break things" startup mindset actually fatal for custom AI agent development?</P><P>I read that rushing MVPs creates massive tech debt and unstable guardrails that cause projects to crash by year two.</P><P>Have any of you hit this "year 2 wall" with your AI projects or had to completely rethink rapid deployment?</P> Fri, 19 Jun 2026 10:56:51 GMT Inument 2026-06-19T10:56:51Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/generative-ai/does-quot-move-fast-and-break-things-quot-ruin-ai-agents/m-p/159892#M1878 <P>Is the "move fast and break things" startup mindset actually fatal for custom AI agent development?</P><P>I read that rushing MVPs creates massive tech debt and unstable guardrails that cause projects to crash by year two.</P><P>Have any of you hit this "year 2 wall" with your AI projects or had to completely rethink rapid deployment?</P> Fri, 19 Jun 2026 10:56:51 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/generative-ai/does-quot-move-fast-and-break-things-quot-ruin-ai-agents/m-p/159892#M1878 Inument 2026-06-19T10:56:51Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/generative-ai/does-quot-move-fast-and-break-things-quot-ruin-ai-agents/m-p/161002#M1908 <P>Well, you can only break things which exist, so if you're delivering an MVP, nothing yet exists to be broken.&nbsp; This is kind of the wrong mindset, I think you should look at the agile process of "ship fast, ship small, iterate".&nbsp; Sometimes the iterations are you implementing a guardrail or tuning a system prompt but you're making a lot of small changes quickly and getting lots of feedback from your users.</P> Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:49:50 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/generative-ai/does-quot-move-fast-and-break-things-quot-ruin-ai-agents/m-p/161002#M1908 Rjdudley 2026-06-30T20:49:50Z