Agentic Pipelines

Learn how to treat an agent's extended-thinking block as an audit log you grep in CI to catch silent task substitutions before they ship, plus where that practice breaks down.

Learn why an LLM-as-judge validator needs its own tests, fail-closed defaults, and separate alerting instead of being treated as trusted plumbing.

We went from 4 subagents to 16 expecting more throughput — p95 latency got worse instead, and the culprit turned out to be the same failure mode database engineers have fought for decades.

If your code-review agents share a base model and a prompt, the majority vote you trust isn't canceling error — it's laundering it into false confidence, and the math says so.

A broker dashboard that says "Exactly-Once: Enabled" isn't lying to you — it's describing something that literally can't exist, and the same blind spot is probably sitting inside your agent's tool-retry logic right now.

The sampler was never the problem — the real source of your 'non-deterministic' agent is hiding in the context window, and most pipelines never check it.