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# [Loop Engineering: Your Agent Doesn't Know When It's Done](https://karthikk.hashnode.dev/loop-engineering-your-agent-doesn-t-know-when-it-s-done?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Everything held up in testing. That's how these stories always start. Then, in production, a downstream API timed out. Not at the beginning of the run, that would have been easy. It died in the middle

Jul 26 · 11 min read · karthikk.hashnode.dev  
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Solution Architect at IBM | Production Agentic AI, MCP, Enterprise Architecture

Solution Architect at IBM with 12+ years in enterprise software, cloud, and applied AI. I write about what production agentic AI actually looks like, the parts that don't fit the marketing. Senior Member, IEEE.

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