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AI agents usually break in production for boring backend reasons, not model reasons

I come from backend/distributed systems, and building agents I keep running into the same thing. When an agent fails in prod, it's rarely the model. It's the plumbing around it. A few things I'd sort out before worrying about prompts: Make tool calls idempotent . Agents retry. If create_invoice run…

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  1. 2026-10-20 16:07 · r/AI_Agents
    AI agents usually break in production for boring backend reasons, not model reasons

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