How to Build an AI Agent That Doesn't Go Off the Rails — The Agent Loop, Planning, Tool Use, Memory & Guardrails
A demo agent takes ten lines and a weekend. A production agent is a different animal: it loops forever on an ambiguous task, calls a tool that doesn't exist, spends $40 in tokens on one question, silently returns a confidently wrong answer, and — the first time you let it near a write action — dele…
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- 2026-11-01 17:55 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
How to Build an AI Agent That Doesn't Go Off the Rails — The Agent Loop, Planning, Tool Use, Memory & Guardrails
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