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Production-Ready Agents: Automatic Tool Retries with Exponential Backoff
LangChain· 2025-12-04 14:30
Hi there, this is Christian from Nche. Today we're fixing one of the most frustrating problems in agent development. Tools that fail at the worst possible moment.Because let's be honest, we all have been in the situation where we want to demo our shiny new agent, but then random API calls just fail or a third party integration just throws [clears throat] a random 500. And in a typical agent, one tool call and one tool call failure might cause the entire result to become garbage. Or in cases where your model ...
Why Most AI Agents Fail — and How a Simple Todo List Fixes It
LangChain· 2025-11-13 17:01
Hi, this is Christian from Lchain. Most AI agents today don't think ahead. They just react one step at a time.And that's why exactly they get sometimes stuck, loop, hallucinate, or just burn money. But here's a twist. With just one piece of state, a simple to-do list, an agent can suddenly plan, execute reliably, and finish task like a professional.The to-do list middleware for longchain agents will help you with exactly that. Today I will show you why planning can change everything and when it actually mak ...