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Articles tagged “production

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Grid of test scenario cards with pass and fail indicators showing evaluation coverage distribution
Testing & Evaluation·13 min read

How Much Testing Is Enough for Your AI Agent?

Code coverage doesn't apply to AI agents. Here's a framework for thinking about evaluation coverage: how many scenarios you need, what distribution to target, and how to know when you've tested enough.

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Network diagram showing HTTP transport routes consolidating from two paths to one streamlined endpoint
Tools & MCP·12 min read

MCP SSE Is Deprecated. Here's How to Migrate

SSE transport is being deprecated across major MCP platforms in 2026. Here's a practical migration guide from HTTP+SSE to Streamable HTTP, with TypeScript examples and a phased rollout strategy.

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Developer at a desk surrounded by sticky notes with warning symbols, red warning lights on a server rack nearby
Tools & MCP·14 min read read

7 FastMCP mistakes that break your agent in production

FastMCP servers that work locally often fail at scale. Seven common mistakes, from missing annotations to monolithic tool sets, and how to fix each one.

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Diagram showing MCP as a foundational protocol layer with agent configuration, memory, testing, and observability stacked above it
Tools & MCP·16 min read

MCP Is Now Open Infrastructure: Build for What's Next

MCP was donated to the Linux Foundation and the AAIF just held its first summit. What does the protocol becoming open infrastructure mean for what you build on top of it?

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Agent Architecture·14 min read read

The 17x error trap in multi-agent systems

Multi-agent systems amplify errors 17x, not reduce them. We compare CrewAI, LangGraph, and Autogen failure modes with concrete fixes and a decision tree.

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A clean desk with colorful building blocks arranged into a fragile tower on one side and a sturdy steel structure with monitoring instruments on the other
Industry & Strategy·14 min read read

The no-code ceiling: when agent builders hit production

Visual agent builders get you to 80% fast. The last 20%, telephony, monitoring, testing, and memory, requires infrastructure they never intended to provide.

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Dashboard showing split-screen comparison of offline test results versus live production scorecard trends for an AI agent
Testing & Evaluation·18 min read

Online vs. Offline Evals: Close the Production Gap

89% of teams have observability but only 37% run online evals. Here's why that gap is where production failures hide, and how to close it with a practical online eval pipeline.

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Illustration of an AI judge holding a checklist while reviewing a conversation transcript on a monitor
Technical Guide·22 min read

LLM-as-a-Judge: Build a Production Eval Pipeline

Build a production LLM-as-a-judge eval pipeline step by step. Covers judge selection, rubric design, CI integration, and sampling strategies that scale.

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Illustration of distributed trace spans connecting an AI agent to MCP tool servers with observability signals flowing through
Technical Guide·20 min read

MCP Servers in Production: Observability from Day One

Instrument your MCP servers with OpenTelemetry for production-grade observability. Covers tracing tool calls, detecting loops, cost attribution, and alerting.

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Engineering team reviewing real-time AI agent monitoring dashboards with metrics and conversation traces
Learning AI·22 min read read

Build an AI Agent Observability Pipeline from Scratch

Build a production observability pipeline for AI agents using TypeScript and the Chanl SDK. Covers metrics, traces, quality scoring, drift detection, and alerting.

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Illustration of a quality monitoring dashboard showing score trends and alert thresholds across production AI agent conversations
Learning AI·20 min read

Production Agent Evals: Catch Score Drift, Ship Confidently

Your evals pass in staging but miss production failures. Build three eval pipelines with the Chanl SDK: automated scorecards, scenario regression, and drift detection that catches quality degradation before customers do.

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Watercolor illustration of a split dashboard showing human reviewers on one side and automated scoring metrics on the other
Operations·15 min read read

74% of Production Agents Still Rely on Human Evaluation

A survey of 306 practitioners reveals most production agents are far simpler than expected. The eval gap isn't a tooling problem. It's a trust problem.

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Visualization of the widening gap between AI agent capability scores and reliability metrics across model generations
Learning AI·15 min read

Your Agent Is Getting Smarter. It's Not Getting More Reliable.

Reliability improves at half the rate of accuracy. Three 85%+ tools combine to just 74%. Here's the math, the research, and the testing protocols that close the gap.

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Data visualization showing the gap between AI agent benchmark scores and production performance metrics
Testing & Evaluation·13 min read

Your Agent Aced the Benchmark. Production Disagreed.

We scored 92% on GAIA. Production CSAT: 64%. Here's which AI agent benchmarks actually predict deployed performance, why most don't, and what to measure instead.

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Watercolor illustration of distributed trace spans flowing through an AI agent pipeline with OpenTelemetry instrumentation
Operations·18 min read read

What to Trace When Your AI Agent Hits Production

OpenTelemetry GenAI conventions are the production standard for agent tracing. What to instrument, what to skip, and what breaks — from a 2 AM debugging war story.

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Developer comparing small and large AI model outputs on a monitor
Learning AI·18 min read

A 7B Domain Model Beat Everything We Tried

Domain-specific language models are beating trillion-parameter generalists on vertical tasks. Here's when a 7B model is the right call, how the training pipeline works, and what production teams are shipping today.

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Diagram showing interconnected AI agents coordinating a complex customer service workflow
Agent Architecture·14 min read

The Multi-Agent Pattern That Actually Works in Production

Gartner reports a 1,445% surge in multi-agent system inquiries. Here are the orchestration patterns that actually work when real customers call -- and why most teams pick the wrong one.

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Layered shield diagram representing defense-in-depth security architecture for AI agents
Security & Compliance·18 min read

Your AI Agent Has No Guardrails

Air Canada honored a refund its chatbot hallucinated. DPD's bot cursed at customers on camera. One e-commerce agent approved $2.3M in unauthorized refunds at 2:47 AM. Here is the five-layer guardrail architecture that prevents all three.

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Watercolor illustration of descending cost bars alongside token streams flowing through an optimization pipeline
Operations·16 min read read

Your AI Agent Costs $13K/Month. Here's the Fix.

A production customer-service agent burned $13,247 in one month. Prompt caching, model routing, batch processing, and plan-and-execute architecture cut it to $1,100. Real pricing math for every technique.

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Ilustración en acuarela de desarrolladores en una terraza de café con diagrama de despliegue de cohete en pantalla — estilo Dusty Blue
Learning AI·20 min read

Parte 4: Los 7 Puntos de Extensión en una Base de Código de Producción

Más de 50 skills, múltiples MCP servers, reglas con alcance, hooks de seguridad — así es como los 7 puntos de extensión de Claude se componen en un monorepo NestJS real con 17 proyectos. Qué funciona, qué entra en conflicto y qué haríamos diferente.

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Desarrollador revisando resultados de pruebas de agentes de IA en una laptop
Testing & Evaluation·14 min read

Tu agente paso todas las pruebas de desarrollo. Por eso fallara en produccion

Un framework de pruebas de 4 capas para agentes de IA (unitarias, integracion, rendimiento y caos) para que tu agente sobreviva a clientes reales, no solo a demos controladas.

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Ilustracion en acuarela de un ingeniero monitoreando un dashboard de agentes de IA en produccion con metricas de confiabilidad
Agent Architecture·24 min read

IA Agentica en Produccion: De Prototipo a Servicio Confiable

Lleva IA agentica a produccion sin que se rompa a las 2 AM. Cubre patrones de orquestacion (ReAct, bucles de planificacion), manejo de errores, circuit breakers, degradacion elegante, observabilidad y escalamiento, con implementaciones en TypeScript que puedes reutilizar.

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Watercolor illustration of an engineering team monitoring AI agent dashboards with data flowing across screens
Operations·28 min read read

AI Agent Observability: What to Monitor When Your Agent Goes Live

Build a production observability pipeline for AI agents. Covers latency, token usage, tool success rates, conversation quality, drift detection, structured logging, alerting strategies, and the critical difference between LLM and agent observability.

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