Real-world Ops: Managing the Extreme Overhead of Production Agentic Systems
zakelfassi · x · 2026-08-21
The author notes that few have managed production agentic systems handling real-world value exchange (goods, money, assets). He is documenting an ongoing investigation into reducing the extreme overhead and decision fatigue encountered while dealing with agents at scale, reflecting practical engineering pain points.
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