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Notes from the production trenches.

Patterns, post-mortems, and architecture decisions from the AI systems we ship for clients. Opinionated, file-level specific, and honest about what's still in flight.

May 28, 2026

Crossing the production gap: five patterns for AI agents that survive Monday morning

Long-running agent workflows take days, span pods, pause for humans, and get audited. We unpack the five patterns — and the interoperability layer — we use when we engineer them for clients.

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