Infra reality check 2026: your agent dies in production for the same reasons as any distributed system — timeouts, bad retries, secret sprawl, no SLOs.
Hot take: **agent frameworks without platform engineering are toys**.
Freelance angle: pure « AI app builders » are commoditized fast. Platform freelancers who make agents **observable, cheap, and restartable** are booked out.
I tell clients: budget 30% of the AI project for runtime, not just prompts.
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