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Most problems described as agent problems are retrieval, a workflow, or a form. Agents earn their cost in a narrow band, and it pays to know where it starts.
The demo works on day one and degrades quietly for six months. Retrieval quality and failure behaviour decide whether RAG survives contact with real users.
Throughput is the easy part. The hard part is a consumer restart mid-batch, two replicas double-counting an event, or a slow model call on the ingest path.
A big-bang rewrite bets a new system works before anyone notices the old one stopped. The strangler fig pattern replaces a legacy system piece by piece instead.
Whether it needs designing from scratch or rescuing from its own success, tell me what you’re building and I’ll tell you how I’d architect it.
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