Tommy Tran releases Queue: In Practice agent reliability harness

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The author argues that reliability, rather than model capability, is the binding constraint on LLM agents in production, since agents function as distributed systems that write their own call graphs. By mapping classic reliability patterns—such as retries, idempotency keys, and validation layers—onto the agent loop, engineers can address persistent failure modes across infrastructure, interfaces, and state management. Open article →