The AI Agents in Practice series. Learn how to build production-grade AI agents from first principles — why agent demos break, what holds up in production, and the patterns that scale.
A practical, production-oriented guide to building AI agents — patterns over products, anti-hype, vendor-neutral.
The Series
Part 1: The Demo Worked. Production Didn't.
Priya's refund went through on a shipped order. The model was right. The system around it wasn't. Why agent demos break the moment they meet production — and what the demo hid that production reveals.
Part 2: What Makes Something an Agent
Your AI Agent Works Perfectly in the Demo. Here Are the 6 Ways It Dies in Production. | Towards AI
Guest post: The Production Gap: Five Patterns for Building Long-Running AI Agents
You gave your AI agent real tools. Here's the 4-part control layer it's missing + the Judge Layer implementation guide
Agentic Programming: A Roadmap - MachineLearningMastery.com
Author(s): Vinamra Yadav Originally published on Towards AI. The demo worked perfectly. You ran it twenty times. You showed it to…
Every enterprise wants AI agents, but the tutorials skip the hard part: getting from demo to...
A practitioner's guide to the agentic era
Everyone is building AI agents right now. Autonomous systems that reason, plan, and act without...
Most AI demos look impressive until you ask a simple question: What is actually happening under the...
Idempotency, validation, budgets, and tracing — the checklist for shipping AI agents that actually survive production.
