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Practical AI · July 9, 2026 · 46m

Building Durable AI Agents

Hamza Tahir explores how MLOps principles are shaping the future of generative AI, covering workflows, agent harnesses, fleets, and the infrastructure needed to build durable, scalable systems. The conversation dives into open source tools, production challenges, and how ZenML's new project, Kitaru, helps developers build resilient, replayable, and observable agent systems.

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Curious

MLOps Principles Applied to Generative AI
MLOps practices — versioning, reproducibility, observability, monitoring — are essential for making AI agents reliable and scalable in production.
Replayability as a Production Requirement for Agents
AI agents must be able to replay past executions from stored state, enabling debugging, auditing, and improvement without re-running expensive operations.

Novel

Agent Harnesses and Fleets as Architectural Primitives
Organizing AI agents into harnesses (single agent + instrumentation) and fleets (multiple agents with coordination) enables reliability, testing, and observability.

Highlights

The Demo-to-Production Gap in AI Agents
AI agents work well in demos but fail in production due to lack of observability, replay capability, and systematic error handling.
Observability as the Bridge Between AI and SRE
Generative AI agents require deep observability — logging every decision, LLM call, and external interaction — so that failures can be diagnosed and traced back to root causes.

Misc

ZenML is building production infrastructure for AI agents — a gap between research and real systems
Kitaru project focuses on making agents replayable and observable in production
MLOps as a bridge: applying proven software engineering patterns to generative AI
Agent fleets and harnesses as architectural primitives for reliability
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