Surviving LangChain Version Upgrades: Migration Patterns for Production Systems
LangChain's 0.1→0.3 migration path broke production systems in ways teams did not anticipate. These patterns reduce the damage next time.
2026-05-13 · 8 min
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The Evaluation Layer Every Production AI System Needs
How to build an evaluation layer for production AI systems: golden sets, failure taxonomies, regression gates, tool choices, thresholds, and release criteria.
2026-05-12 · 10 min
Debugging CrewAI Agent Failures: Tracing Task Delegation Through Multi-Agent Workflows
Diagnose CrewAI failures by layer: delegation loops, role confusion, tool errors. Structured logging, trace correlation IDs, and callback handler patterns.
2026-05-11 · 8 min
When Your AI Agent Needs a Principal Engineer, Not More Prompt Tuning
A practical guide for founders and CTOs: the signs your AI agent no longer needs more prompt tuning and now needs principal-level engineering judgment.
2026-05-07 · 8 min
LangGraph State Management: Checkpointing, Recovery, and the Persistence Layer Decision
LangGraph state schema design, checkpointer backend selection, selective checkpointing, and crash recovery patterns for production AI agent deployments.
2026-05-06 · 8 min
What A Stabilization Sprint Actually Looks Like
What a stabilization sprint actually looks like for a stressed AI system: isolate the hot path, bound the rescue scope, remediate the failure mode, and restore a safer operating baseline.
2026-05-05 · 8 min
CrewAI Memory Systems in Production: Persistence, Retrieval, and State Recovery
CrewAI memory in production requires decisions about persistence backends, retrieval strategies, and state recovery that the quickstart docs do not cover.
2026-05-04 · 8 min
What an Enterprise Agentic Portfolio Review Should Produce in 30 Days
A practical 30-day enterprise agentic portfolio review: initiative inventory, classification rules, funding decisions, governance gates, and a 90-day priority list.
2026-04-30 · 8 min
The Production Readiness Checklist for CrewAI and Multi-Agent Systems
A production readiness checklist for CrewAI and multi-agent systems: orchestration, delegation, tool safety, evals, observability, and human review.
2026-04-28 · 8 min
Architecture Decisions That Cost Startups 6 Months
The startup AI architecture decisions that quietly cost six months: wrong abstraction layers, premature agents, weak evals, unsafe tool access, and missing ownership.
2026-04-23 · 8 min
What an Enterprise AI Governance Review Should Produce in 30 Days
A practical 30-day enterprise AI governance review: decision artifacts, risk map, ownership model, approval points, vendor scoring, and rollout priorities.
2026-04-21 · 8 min
How To Audit an AI Agent Architecture Before It Hardens
A practical architecture audit for AI agents: state, tools, review paths, evaluations, blast radius, and the design choices that become expensive later.
2026-04-16 · 8 min