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Martin Fowler reframes AI-era debt into three layers - technical, cognitive, and intent. The third one is the one most teams are silently accumulating. Here is what it is and how to diagnose it.
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The Agent Reliability Cliff: Why Your 10-Step Chain Only Succeeds 20% of the Time
The math of agent pipelines is brutal. 85% reliability per step compounds to about 20% at 10 steps. Here is why long chains collapse in production, and the six patterns the field has converged on to fight the decay.
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From single-agent baselines to multi-level hierarchies, these are the seven patterns for wiring AI agents together in production. Each with a decision rule, an implementation sketch, and the tradeoffs that actually matter.
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