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# [One Hung API Call Used to Kill My 1,000-Run Benchmark. Here's the Fix.](https://pragmatic-engineer.hashnode.dev/one-hung-api-call-used-to-kill-my-1000-run-benchmark-heres-the-fix-mu3djf2n?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

A single hung call discarded hours of completed work. The timeout, checkpointing, and resume patterns that make long agent benchmarks survivable.

Sep 16 · 4 min read · pragmatic-engineer.hashnode.dev  
Updated Oct 29  
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[Debashish Ghosal](https://hashnode.com/@deghosal)

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AI-Native Engineering Leader · 25 years in SDLC · Building production-grade agent systems with LangGraph, CrewAI, and circuit breakers · ex-Microsoft · WBD

Engineering leader with 25 years building CI/CD platforms, developer experience tooling, and cloud infrastructure at Warner Bros. Discovery, Microsoft, and Nordstrom. Currently building production-grade AI agent systems — circuit breakers, model routing, cost boundaries, and reliability patterns for LLM agent loops. Author of ai-loopguard, an open-source circuit breaker for agent loops.

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