KGklement Gunnduinklementgunndu1.hashnode.dev·Mar 28 · 12 min readYour AI Agent Has 99.9% Uptime and Still Gives Wrong Answers — Here's How Error Budgets Fix ThatYour AI agent has been running for 47 days straight. Zero crashes. Zero timeouts. The uptime dashboard shows 99.97%. Your SRE team is satisfied. Meanwhile, the agent has been hallucinating tool parameters for the last six hours. It confidently genera...00
KGklement Gunnduinklementgunndu1.hashnode.dev·Mar 28 · 8 min readYour AI Agent's Config Lives in 6 Different Files and Nobody Knows Which One WinsYour AI agent has a temperature setting in a YAML file, a model name in an environment variable, a system prompt in a Python string, tool definitions in a JSON schema, retry limits in a constants module, and feature flags in a database. You change th...00
KGklement Gunnduinklementgunndu1.hashnode.dev·Mar 26 · 12 min readYour AI Agent Breaks Every Time You Deploy a New Version — Here's How to Version and Ship Agents SafelyDeploying a new version of your AI agent is not the same as deploying a new version of a web service. You can roll back bad code. You cannot easily roll back bad behavior that corrupted 3,000 records or sent 500 emails before anyone noticed the model...02ME
KGklement Gunnduinklementgunndu1.hashnode.dev·Mar 25 · 9 min readYour AI Agent Makes the Same LLM Call 50 Times a Day — 5 Caching Patterns That Cut Latency and CostEvery time your agent processes a user query, it calls the LLM. Every time it encounters a similar query, it calls the LLM again. Same system prompt, nearly identical user message, same model, same result — but a fresh API call every time. At $15 per...01E
KGklement Gunnduinklementgunndu1.hashnode.dev·Mar 22 · 11 min readYour AI Agent Has 12 Hardcoded API Keys and You Call It "Production-Ready" — Dependency Injection Patterns for Agent SystemsMost agent code I review looks like this: the LLM client is instantiated inline, the vector store connection is hardcoded in the tool function, the prompt template is a raw string in the agent loop, and the embedding model is imported at the top of t...00
