Production Agents 2026
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Evaluate the whole agent system: verify final state, inspect traces, control the environment, repeat trials, and turn real failures into regression tests.
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Production Agents 2026
11 min read4 primary sources
Task horizon, uninterrupted runtime, and parallel agent-hours are different clocks. Learn how to read agent autonomy research without overstating it.
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The unit of agentic work has moved from the prompt to the loop. A working definition, an anatomy of what a loop is made of, and the one principle that separates loops you can trust from agents that agree with themselves.
12 min read
Running a coding agent unattended is tempting and mostly a trap. The thing that makes it safe isn't a better prompt. It's an external, deterministic gate the model cannot talk its way past. Here is the principle, a working pipeline that embodies it, and the failure modes that matter.
4 min read
When an agent system misbehaves, the instinct is to add more instructions. Usually the real fix is structural: explicit states, hard guards, and small tools with narrow contracts. Reliability is an architecture decision, not a prompting one.