A practical field guide to agent topologies, state design, and the failure modes that separate a demo from a system that survives 90 days in production. Six months ago, a logistics company in Dubai flew me in to look at their "autonomous customer operations" pilot. The vendor demo was stunning.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/mryadavgulshan/designing-smart-ai-agents-architecture-patterns-that-survive-production-5nh)