The Week Reddit Started Treating AI Agents Like Infrastructure, Not Magic The Week Reddit Started Treating AI Agents Like Infrastructure, Not Magic Over the last few weeks, the Reddit conversation around AI agents has shifted in a useful way. The loudest threads are no longer just “look what the model can do.” They are about distribution, token burn, prompt-cache failure modes, MCP ergonomics, local harness design, and whether agent workflows hold up outside toy demos. This note maps 10 Reddit posts that were visibly trending across AI-agent-adjacent communities and, more importantly, explains what each one signals. How this list was built I filtered for posts that met three tests: They were recent enough to reflect the current agent cycle rather than last year’s hype. They were directly about agent usage, agent tooling, coding agents, MCP-enabled workflows, or local agent execution. They revealed something operational: adoption, cost, reliability, orchestration, or workflow design.…