RELIABILITY
Building AI systems that don't fall over - retry patterns, checkpoints, circuit breakers, and the agent reliability cliff.
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Long-Running Agents Need Harnesses, Not Hope
A long-running coding agent is only useful if the environment around it can queue tasks, capture logs, checkpoint state, verify behavior, limit cost, and recover from failure.
8 min read
Claude API Reliability: Error Handling Best Practices
The defensive patterns that keep Claude integrations alive in production. Retry shapes, backoff with jitter, circuit breakers, fallback chains, and the observability you need to debug at 3am.
10 min read
The Agent Reliability Cliff: Why Your 10-Step Chain Only Succeeds 20% of the Time
The math of agent pipelines is brutal. 85% reliability per step compounds to about 20% at 10 steps. Here is why long chains collapse in production, and the six patterns the field has converged on to fight the decay.
9 min read
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