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AI Agents That Actually Ship (Not Demos)

Why most agent demos die in the lab — and the architecture choices that get them into production.

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The demo trap Most AI agent demos look magical and then quietly disappear. The gap is rarely the model — it's the system around it.

What production agents need - Clear tool boundaries and permissions - Evaluation harnesses, not vibes - Guardrails, retries, and graceful fallbacks - Observability so you can debug failures

A simple rule If you can't measure whether the agent did the job, you don't have an agent — you have a chatbot with extra steps.

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