Notes on building systems that have to stay up. Plain language, real sources, and the numbers that go with them.
Written by Rahul Kumar Choudhary. Each piece comes out of a system that had to keep running, and the figures on every card are the ones the article has to defend.
Making an agent stop and ask a human is four lines of code, and every framework shows you how. None of them mention that the approval arrives as a brand new request, so in production it reaches a machine that has never heard of the paused job. It fails by quietly starting over, not by crashing.
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Agents and distributed systems, argued from a codebase rather than from opinion. It goes out when a piece is finished and not on a schedule, so it will not fill your inbox.
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Writing — AI Agents articles — Rahul Kumar Choudhary
