Production Agent Pitfalls: Retry Is Not Safe Resume

Deploying AI agents with write access to production reveals that in-loop retries die with the process. Experts emphasize that simply retrying steps is not a safe resumption, highlighting the necessity of persisting side effects and execution states for robust agent workflows.

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