Your Process Will Die. The Task Shouldn't.
Long-running agents quietly entrust their execution state to the process — which is the least reliable thing in the whole system. The fix is older than agents.
Essays on AI agents, LLM systems, and the engineering realities behind building them — by Chuan Liu, Founding AI Engineer at Metix AI.
Long-running agents quietly entrust their execution state to the process — which is the least reliable thing in the whole system. The fix is older than agents.
agentcon is about 1000 lines of Python. Its design fits on a napkin. But six implementation details — most of them invisible from the README — decide whether it actually survives production.
Every major multi-agent framework assumes a single timeline. Real agents don't work that way — and the fix is older than chatbots.
After colleague-skill went viral, someone built a spinoff: ex-skill. The premise — resurrect your ex.
Companies aren't laying people off anymore. They're converting them into tokens.
The biggest threat AI poses to workers isn't unemployment. It's accountability.
AI does not make you less lonely. It makes loneliness feel more bearable. That is not the same thing.
In every hype cycle, the tool itself is innocent. What goes wrong is the fear of being left behind.