We Have 30 AI Agents in Production. Here Are the Top 5 Issues No One Talks About

The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors · Mar 3, 2026 · 1m

We’ve been running AI agents in production at SaaStr for about 10 months now. What started as a couple of experiments has turned into almost 30 agents and vibe-coded apps running across our GTM stack — from outbound sales to inbound qualification to internal operations.

And managing 30 agents is harder than managing the 12 humans we had at peak headcount. Not harder in every way. But harder in ways I didn’t expect.

Here are the top 5 issues we’ve hit — plus a bonus one that might be the most uncomfortable of all.

#1: The Context Switching Tax Is Brutal

Here’s the thing nobody tells you about…