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AI agents, LLM systems, Web3, payments — patterns that hold up in production, not just in demos.
Stripe will retry your webhook endpoint for up to 72 hours. If your handler is not idempotent, that means 72 hours of potential double-charges, double-sends, and corrupted state.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation fixes one LLM problem and introduces three new ones. Here is how to get grounded, citation-enforced answers that refuse when the context isn't enough.
The five decisions that separate an AI agent that holds up in production from one that works once in a notebook. Tool design, cost control, observability, and failure handling.
By Waqas Raza · AI-Native Full-Stack Engineer · Available on Upwork