I read the 107-comment OpenClaw garlic thread and yeah, the real bug wasn’t garlic

A viral r/openclaw post about 40 heads of garlic highlighted a common AI agent failure mode: an autonomous workflow that broke due to a mundane unit mismatch after months of success. The issue stemmed from messy product semantics on a retail page, not an agent going rogue, underscoring the complexities of real-world agent deployment.