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Aug 20, 20262 min
What a trading engine taught me about agent retries
Exchange infrastructure solved idempotency, retry storms, and partial failure decades ago. Agent frameworks are rediscovering all three the hard way.
Topic
Agent Architecture
How to structure agentic systems so failures stay contained and behavior stays explainable.
002
Aug 6, 20261 min
Determinism is a budget, not a property
You cannot make an LLM deterministic. You can decide exactly how much nondeterminism each part of your system is allowed to spend, and enforce it at the boundaries.
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