Stop Letting the Model Own the Control Flow
For high-volume, verifiable workflows, production reliability comes from hard-coding the step sequence and admitting LLM inference only at bounded nodes; the planning loop is usually a flexibility tax paid in hallucination, latency, and tokens.
AngleContrast a fixed LangGraph DAG against planner-driven agents using the DebugAssist stage sequence as the worked example, and state explicitly which bug classes the deterministic design must give up.
Source video ↗Your Agent's Accuracy Is Not the Bottleneck
A pipeline with 50% exact-match RCA accuracy drove PR merge rates from 5% to 48%, which means the binding constraint is output editability and execution surface, not model correctness — so budgets should move from accuracy research to review UX.
AngleArgue the value function should be downstream actionable outcomes (merge rate, resolution time), and show what edit primitives (diff fixer, chat feedback, open-in-your-machine) are needed to convert partial answers into merged changes.
Source video ↗Tools Are a Context Tax: Budgeting Plugin Availability
Exposing every tool to an agent degrades reasoning; tool availability should be gated per run and treated as a scarce context budget item, with an explicit governance path so teams can still extend the capability surface.
AngleFrame MCP plugin loading as capacity planning rather than capability maximization, and lay out the extension/governance tension that runtime restriction creates.
Source video ↗Ship Your Agent Like a Binary, Not Like a Notebook
Agent harnesses should be versioned, immutable artifacts pushed to an existing artifact registry and executed in a container runtime, so agent behavior is reproducible and rollback-able like any other software.
AngleWalk through PEX + Artifactory + Docker packaging of an 8-agent fleet across 5 monorepos, and argue that mutable live agent services are unrollback-able by design.
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