Meituan CatPaw: Engineering Challenges Behind AI Agent Deployment for 90k Internal Users

The most valuable info in this article is that Meituan's CatPaw isn't just a demo-level AI Agent platform, but an engineering system already covering 90k employees internally and running daily in real business scenarios. For someone like me working on deployment in the AI coding tools space, this number carries more weight than any model benchmark report. It means the pitfalls Meituan has stepped into and the solutions they've accumulated in Agent engineering might be an order of magnitude more than what many startups publicly brag about with their 'general-purpose Agents'.