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Four guardrails that turn a vibes-loop into something you'd actually run in production: budget envelope, retry curves, break conditions, and a real fallback chain.
Production lessons from running autonomous agents in long-running loops, fallback patterns that actually work, and the day your agent decides to retry 47 times.
Sometimes the smartest engineering decision is to delete the thing you built three weeks ago. Sometimes it's just to gate it behind an if statement.
How a regex turned a Speaker's plea for silence into twelve confident misattributions, and the five evenings it took to climb from 95.6% to 99.1% accuracy across 850 parliamentary sessions.
What you actually wire up when you blend keyword, dense vector and image embeddings into one ranker — named vectors, fusion, drift, and the day your Turkish search broke on apostrophes.
The 60 in '1/(60+rank)' came from a 2009 paper. Most teams who copy it think it's a Qdrant default.
What stopped the bleeding wasn't a smaller model — it was killing the planner's appetite for extra steps.