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Durable Agent Runtimes: Survive Restarts Without Calling It "Memory" AI Agents

Durable Agent Runtimes: Survive Restarts Without Calling It "Memory"

Durability is resume-correct state across crashes and human waits—not memory. Choose LangGraph, Durable Objects, or Temporal by the failure you must survive.

11 MIN
Pre-Execution Policy Gates: The Kill Switch That Lives Outside the Prompt AI Agents

Pre-Execution Policy Gates: The Kill Switch That Lives Outside the Prompt

Your agent’s kill switch is a pre-execution policy gate outside the prompt: allow, deny, or pending-approval before side effects — fail closed on outages.

11 MIN
LLM-as-Judge Reliability: Calibrate the Scorer Before You Trust the Score AI Agents

LLM-as-Judge Reliability: Calibrate the Scorer Before You Trust the Score

An LLM judge is a noisy instrument, not ground truth. Calibrate against human labels, kill position and verbosity bias, re-check after model or rubric changes.

11 MIN
Agent Loop vs LLM-in-Workflow: Pick the Shape That Matches the Uncertainty AI Agents

Agent Loop vs LLM-in-Workflow: Pick the Shape That Matches the Uncertainty

Most jobs need a workflow with one LLM step, not an agent loop. Use a three-tier test — certainty, branching, blast radius — then prove hybrid is enough.

11 MIN