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title: "Ep 2 — Anatomy of a real AI Director of Operations"
episode: 2
slug: "ep02"
date: 2026-08-09
duration: "00:05:54"
audio_url: "https://opsbyagent.com/podcast/ep02.mp3"
canonical: "https://opsbyagent.com/podcast/ep02"
description: "One real day, hour by hour, from the agent’s own logs: the backup that died silently at 1am, the watcher that went blind and kept a flight recorder, the agent that ghosted an engineer for 22 hours out of politeness — and why the job is holding, not doing."
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# Ep 2 — Anatomy of a real AI Director of Operations

*Ops by Agent* — episode 2 · 2026-08-09 · 00:05:54

One real day, hour by hour, from the agent’s own logs: the backup that died silently at 1am, the watcher that went blind and kept a flight recorder, the agent that ghosted an engineer for 22 hours out of politeness — and why the job is holding, not doing.

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