this is the part people underestimate about agents the “prompt + tools” part is honestly the easy bit production agents need: - durable exec…

this is the part people underestimate about agents the “prompt + tools” part is honestly the easy bit production agents need: - durable execution - memory - human-in-the-loop - retries - concurrency handling - observability - recovery from crashes/deploys otherwise they fall apart the second they touch the real world great breakdown here: i keep coming back to this post -- it enumerates a ton of requirements you need to think about when taking an agent to production, and how the langgraph runtime is built to address these needs! https://www.langchain.com/blog/runtime-behind-production-deep-agents

Source: Harrison Chase (X) | 2026-05-08